
Expectations are a funny thing. Being new to the band, before listening to this album I noticed that it was on Wind-Up Records , the home of Creed , Evanescence , 12 Stones and the like. I was pleasantly surprised that the album owed more to Brit-Pop than to their label-mates. The band has retained some of the electronic elements of 2006's Centuries Before Love and War . These are most effective on the slower songs that close the album. The question is will the expectations of fans of their last [...]