The debut album by the Pigeon Detectives, 2007's
Wait For Me
, was a fairly scrappy, almost punky take on the great Britpop revival of the late '00s, full of refreshingly concise two-minute rockers owing much to the
Buzzcocks
/
Undertones
tradition. Unfortunately, the rush-released follow-up, barely a year later, loses most of what was appealing and fun about the debut. The album was produced by
Stephen Street
, whose work for the
Smiths
,
Blur
and more recently the
Kaiser Chiefs
has made him a major figure in the style, but unfortunately, his production seems uncharacteristically weak, or perhaps it's merely that his briskly efficient sound shows up the inherent weaknesses of the Pigeon Detectives' sound. Indeed, the latter interpretation unfortunately seems more likely, because the handful of manic sub-180-second rockers --