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Track Listings
| 1. Coming To Save You |
| 2. Spell It Out |
| 3. We've Always Been Your Friends |
| 4. In Your Arms |
| 5. A Warning Sign |
| 6. Change Your Mind |
| 7. Any Minute Now |
| 8. Here It Comes |
| 9. One By One |
| 10. The Messiah |
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The ever-spinning bronco of club culture is a tricky beast to stay a-straddle. When Leeds funk-punk foursome The Sunshine Underground released their excellent debut album Raise the Alarm in 2006 it filtered the subterranean rhythms of New York’s LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture through sturdy Northern rock song-craft to create a clubwise electro-indie brew. Tracks like Borders and Put You in Your Place were precursors to the more techno-fried ravings of Klaxons, CSS and Hot Chip. Four years on, though, new rave is in the stocks, clubland is full of unicorn-haired femtronicons pouting along to La Roux and the dance guitar seems as woefully Neanderthal as a mammoth bone spork.
So where does that leave The Sunshine Underground in 2010? Chasing the Kasabian dollar, it turns out. Coming on like the twitchy younger brother of West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum that went to uni, this second album shamelessly beefs up the Big Music – that peculiar amalgam of granite guitar, four-to-the-floor drumming and filthy synth splurge that makes you instinctively want to strut around a stage convinced you’re the Second Coming of Liam Gallagher.
Casual listeners beware: the over-riding clamour (imagine White Lies playing in a hurricane) leaves nothing here as starkly accessible as the early hits. You might even be reminded of the blustery wailers that dropped out of the Happy Mondays’ bell bottoms into the early 90s baggy scene or, worse still, The Music. But perseverance uncovers a melodic clout that Lady Gaga would give her rumoured left testicle for. There’s a cultured precision beneath the Killers bellow of Change Your Mind and A Warning Sign, while the brilliant Coming to Save You rattles with subway sedition and Spell It Out is rocket rock beamed direct from Space Station Muse.
Histrionics swamp proceedings in places – there are choruses of In Your Arms where you’ll swear singer Craig Wellington should be the subject of a Bodyshock documentary called The Man With the Grand Canyon for a Gullet – but the clinical tunefulness at the root ultimately reveals itself like a magic eye picture. Impressive, expansive stuff.
Nobody’s Coming to Save You is a record striving to do for music what Avatar does for cinema: produce a sensory-overload epic with tangible depth. Music from the Dalston basement club at the end of the universe. --Mark Beaumont
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
solid album,
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This review is from: Nobody's Coming to Save You (Audio CD)
Nobody's Coming To Save You is the unexpected album from the Sunshine Underground. It is inarguably more mature, and still encapsulating what the band's looking out for: the spirit of innovation, and bald decisions to visit unashamedly what we can call 'pop territory' with an alternative sound. One flavour that makes me extremely happy is that when you listen to the album you can spot the different genres the members listen to, influences have been carefully reflected in the album, only for the careful listener. Musically crafted very well, however I would like it to have been recorded a bit better, the playback is not exactly 'definitive' in terms of production quality.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't think. Just buy it!,
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This review is from: Nobody's Coming to Save You (Audio CD)
Well it's just a few days until this album is released and I've just spent the last four hours listening to this album on repeat on their myspace page and can tell you one thing about it for sure - IT'S AN ABSOLUTE BELTER!It's been over three years in the making but TSU have come back with a storming second album. Forget the (frankly terrible) tag of a 'New-Rave band' they were labelled with by the NME et al. These lads are a rock band. Full stop. Granted a number of their songs have a funk/dance beat behind the drums and guitar, but to lump TSU in with tuneless oinks like The Klaxons or Late of the Pier is a massive injustice to them. As is calling them 'Lad-Rock' and talking of them in the same vein as The Enemy' or the like. The Sunshine Underground as well as being a phenomenal live band, have a great knack of weaving catchy hooks with strong beats and vocals that just beg to be screamed out back at the band/stereo. The opener 'Coming To Save You' is a typical taster of the album, where the slow build up leads to a frantic finalé with 30 seconds of repeated chants of "We want your love, your hopes, your fears" building to the brilliant chorus. Other stand-out tracks include the catchy new single 'We've Always Been Your Friends', the dancey 'A Warning Sign' and soon-to-be-live-favourite 'Here It Comes', although to be honest there really isn't a weak track on the album. Perhaps the most surprising song (and my own personal fave) is the almost-a-ballad 'Any Minute Now' which shows that despite their hard exterior The Sunshine Underground are a bunch of softies. However, these are 'softies' capable of writing a heartfelt song with real passion one minute and then big-sounding singalongs the next! There's nobody around at the minute that does it better than these boys. So if you liked their first album, don't even hesitate, this is just as strong. If you're new to TSU, then I strongly advise you to take a chance. If you're a fan (although I really hate doing this!) of The Stone Roses, Doves, Kasabian, New Order or maybe even The Killers, then this should be right up your street. An epic album from a truly epic band! Do it...do it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
More of the same,
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This review is from: Nobody's Coming to Save You (Audio CD)
The feel of this album is very similar to their debut. They're at their best in the high tempo numbers such as Coming To Save You; which have genuine energy. The slower numbers such as The Messiah are a bit bland and lacking in finesse. If you don't know The Sunshine Underground, I'd go for their first album over this one but for fans of the original this is well worth having.
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