The seventh LP from the Welsh water-treaders features lead single Innocent, a sunny, optimistic toe-tapper that, much like a bowl of Cornflakes, is nice enough and won't offend anyone.
She's Alright has Kelly Jones on confrontational form, presumably protecting his lady from bullies by gruffly shouting at them - but it falsely signals a return from the band's career-long slide into drawling, sprawling and dead-eyed rock-lite towards a meatier centre.
Hackneyed tunes like I Got Your Number reveal said meat to be closer to greying mince than prime, hot-blooded rump.
Synth flirts on Beerbottle's lazy four-minute meander feel as calculated now as it did for them in 2005. Yawn.
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