Description:	CD on Bad Sneakers
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Indie Pop
	Label:	Bad Sneakers
	Price:	£9.29
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...according to our Brian on 15 May 2008.

There was a day when I had hair & a love for jangly, sad songs written by shy, lovelorn men from the North. Well, The Wedding Present are no more unless you count The Divorce Cinerama and all that's left of that ilk round these parts is The Lodger, a band I can't quite get my my fat face around. 'Life is Sweet' has lots of requisite things to make a good sophomore album but just sounds a little limp to me. Fey vocals over a kinda pastiche of post Sarah/B&S jangle pop, lovingly produced and all that but the songs leave no impact on my heart. If you dig the current scene and aren't a bitter, jaded old sod like me then these flighty, twee tunes will no doubt touch you. They sure know how to write a good, tight number and everything's in place.....but there's summat important missing from this Leeds 3 piece. The urgency of the 1st couple of singles crops up in 'The Conversation' but maybe my time loving this style of indie pop is past. Much preferred the Wave Pictures album. This is more akin to The Boyfriends and those meek and mild alternative strummers. For fans of Milky Wimpshake possibly?

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What their label says...

Following the release of their debut album ‘Grown Ups’ on Angular Records and three previous singles on Dance To The Radio and Angular Recordings, The Lodger return with their second album ‘Life Is Sweet’. The Lodger have toured USA and extensively in Europe, and are the UK tour main support for The Long Blondes. Past winners of Rebel Playlist vote on BBC 6 Music, they have received radio support from Steve Lamacq on Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music. Featured video on YouTube, Kicking Sand received over 40,000 views. Debut album ‘Grown-Ups’ was #62 in Amazon.com’s top 100 albums of 2007, #4 in This Is Fake DIY’s best albums of 2007, #1 in Click Music’s best albums of 2007. “Every song tonight is, in its own unassuming way, a work of genius” – NME, “They may well be the perfect 3-piece pop operation” – Artrocker, “mixing uplifting pop with disturbing lyrics” – The Guardian, "Direct, intimate and almost wholly devoid of cynicism, The Lodger have created a record imbued with a cheering, if curious naivety. Let’s hope they never go growing up." – Drowned In Sound.