Title: A big let down
Product review: Despite initial disapointment I forced myself to give this album repeated listens in the hope that it would gradually grow in my estimations to something approaching the high regard that I hold the rest of the BNL catalogue in. Sadly the more I heard it the less I liked it. Only "Aluminium" comes close to anything that they've released in the past and if "War on Drugs" didn't grab you the first time then repeated listens only make it more embarassing. Taken as a whole it sounds like a band trying to recapture a formula that worked so well in the past but lacking the creative energy to pull it off. Hopefully E2E serves as a signal that a rethink is underway in the band's camp and future releases will be up to the standard they set with their debut and rarely dropped away from.Still, at least it's better than the unspeakable Christmas effort that followed.
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