![]() ![]() 'Make Up Your Mind' gallops along, 'Cut To The Chase' gets the head shaking and the retro rock of 'Helpless' could have been a leftover from 'The Latest Fashion'. This is Foo Fighters style rock as illustrated on the aggressive 'Hate Song' and overall it's much more guitar-orientated and vocally less subtle. It's a more mature effort that's for sure and for that there's always kudos and yet the irony is that the band lose something when they're not lining you up for the killer hook or the sucker punch chorus. 'Long Road To Nowhere' is thus a suitable epitaph to the band and shows a progression away from the overt commerciality of its predecessor. The hard work for little outlay finally lead to the band splitting up earlier this year and although a final farewell tour is planned with others filling in for departed members it still feels like a waste of an extremely talented band. Plagued by problems with their name, where they were often confused with the American hardcore band Attack Attack! (one exclamation mark), who by a strange twist of fate has also split up, they failed to embed themselves into the public's psyche in a way that some of their Welsh kissing cousins had done a bitter irony when you consider that they were way better than many of them. The title of this album is perhaps a good pointer to the demise of a band that after their last album – the excellent 'The Latest Fashion'– seemed to have everything going for them. This story was originally published in September 2015.A progression away from the overt commerciality of its predecessor.
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