The Sunshine Underground - Nobody's Coming to Save You

After releasing their widely acclaimed debut Raise the Alarm back in 2006 which featured songs which even now are still popular in clubs such as Borders, Commercial Breakdown and Put You In Your Place, The Sunshine Underground had a hard task of bettering their debut.

Nobody's Coming to Save You doesn't sway too far away from the dance influenced rock of their debut although there are a few surprises and slower tracks such as Change Your Mind and Any Minute Now. If anything the dance beats are heavier and the guitars are louder throught the majority of the album.

Opening with a lone riff of Coming to Save You this track quickly builds in to a combination of heavy beats, loud guitars and a huge euphoric chorus.

Spell it Out starts off instantly in to quiet riffs and beats but as the previous track did it builds to a loud dance track.

We've Always Been Your Friends slows the pace down slightly but it is still highly danceable and it is a potential single.

In Your Arms and A Warning Sign are not as full-on as the opening two tracks but they are great slices of dance influenced rock. The latter has an amazing mid section where it goes in to just drums and bass but then a guitar solo creeps in and the chorus returns.

The album closes with Here it Comes, One by One and the slow burning epic of The Messiah.

The production of the album is also worth noting as it gets the balance of organic elements like guitars and electronic drums and synths just right, which is a good change from the majority of indie/dance crossover bands who sound like the guitars are battling with the dance elements.

This is a great follow up to Raise the Alarm and although it just runs at ten tracks there are no filler tracks, every track is worth hearing. Recommended for fans of Delphic, Kaiser Chiefs, Klaxons, LCD Soundsystem and Bloc Party.

10 out of 10