One to Another

It’s been way too long has since The Sunshine Underground released a LP. After a delicious debut album and little (but always well-deserved) acclaim, the four lads from Leeds quietly went away. Nobody’s Coming To Save You, their second album, was much awaited and maybe hopes are a little high and disappointment right around the corner.

Not that it’s a bad album. It’s pretty nice, actually. It claims to be darker than its predecessor but I’m not sure it really does that. Sure, the glow sticks are out the window. However, baggy guitars and quick drums are still around and the songs still have the same power to get you up and make you dance. The keyboards still creep their way into the songs making them feel like a hybrid of New Order and Stone Roses. They even add a bit of Talking Heads into the equation, crafting songs that are good sing alongs.

But at times, Sunshine, for all the talent they do have, can sound awfully mediocre and just like another indie-by-number-Arctic-Monkeys-fanboys band. They even end up sounding a lot like The Enemy on Change Your Mind and Any Minute Now and that is never a good thing. Luckily, we still get songs like the very Charlatans Here It Comes or stomp single We’ve Always Been Your Friends, songs that will only fuel the cult following these guys have.