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Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now review

Is this New York thrashy rock quintet - think a cross between Green Day and Lostprophets if their work is unfamiliar to you - a front for some anti-Sunday trading organisation? I doubt it, but there is more than a suggestion that the band want to see Sunday restored to its (rightful?) place in the faith-based weekly timetable.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into things. Probably.

Anyway, this is the band's third album and in fairness it rocks, thanks in part to producer Eric Valentine, he of Queens Of The Stone Age and Lostprophets fame.

It's not terribly original-sounding material, but when has that stopped bands picking up guitars and playing them really loud to some manic drumming and shouty vocals? The songs should be heavy enough to be able to convince today's rock kids, and also have an underlying pop element that should see the band manage to satisfy the younger generation - and here one means the tweeny lot.

Basically, it's not that great, but nor does it completely suck. Savvy?

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Released: 24th April 2006
Label: WEA

30-01-2007