| It's seven years since their debut and it
really is about time The Adventures
(now
a four-piece) cracked it. Their incredibly
catchy bubblegum pop-all dippy melodies,
chiming guitars and keening vocals-demands
it to the point where signs of desperation
are detectable on this fourth album.
Some
songs, like Raining All Over The World
or
I Really Don't Mind seem to be all
chorus;
the eager to please guitar solo on
Marianne
glibly quotes Je T'Aime...Mai Non Plus,
and
the cover of Monday Monday, while enjoyable
in a mid-paced, swinging sort of way,
seems
to have a purely commercial raison
d'etre.
Elsewhere, the '60s pastiche becomes
laughable
- especially on the Freddie And The
Dreamers-ish
Impossible You. But it would be a curmudgeon
indeed who couldn't find something
to enjoy:
the relatively austere, synth-driven
Come
The Day, perhaps, or the ballad, I
Don't
Want To Play This Game, which has such
a
sweetly chorded chorus you could listen
to
it for hours. |
