Traditionally the second wave of any movement washes up all the dregs and I guess we’re at that point in the boys with angular guitars movement. Trouble is, for those slow off the mark, it’s easy for good bands to get lost among the second wave rubbish. And that’s the problem Good Books face, for they are a fine band indeed. Maybe they stand out because they are much more rounded musically, any rough edges clipped off, without losing their edge.Any band that has a song as excellent as Beautiful To Watch to lead off the album is onto a winner. That they follow it immediately with The Illness, a soaring Bloc Party style tune but with more life than that band, and Passchendaele, which is maudlin pop infected with scratchy fighting bits, just shows the quality of the tunes they have.
Good Life Salesman has a cool indie swagger and a restrained solo and Violent Man Lovesong is quite laid back, like a minimal Death Cab For Cutie. The rest, while all rather good passes by in a blur. One imagines repeated listens would display the beauty of these tracks too.
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