Back at the front end, opener "In Competition for the Worst Time" is hobbled by the processing on Woomble's voice, but the third and fourth tracks deliver on its tease. version) "Finished It Remains" captures a bit of that "we're all in this together" sweep the band's best songs always have. Closer (before the bonus tracks on the U.S. So where are the standouts? Well, by my count there are three: two at the beginning and one at the end. It's something of a descendent of the group's "American English", but where that song willed itself to become an anthem, this one seems to get distracted by its instrumentation, preferring to trail off and let the horns bring it to an anticlimactic, if pretty, conclusion. That song's sequencing right before "Future Works" shows the band's range, as the latter song is a pensive, horn-dappled march, roughly the equivalent of a ballad for a band that doesn't really write ballads. "If It Takes You Home" feels like an advertisement for the band's more overtly rock credentials: The song's crunching guitars can't quite smother vocalist Roddy Woomble completely, but it's not for lack of trying, and the singer saves it with his verse melody and a workmanly chorus. Make Another World seems as though it's trying to make up the lost ground. The Scottish group actually took something of a step backward on its last album, 2005's overly sedate Warnings/Promises, after coming into its own on The Remote Part in 2002.
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