Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy - Little Man Tate

Little Man Tate's 2nd album released in September 2008 seemed to lose a lot of the 1st's appeal, the upbeat catchy sound of the first has been lost and replaced with an over-produced sound, there's often too much going on at once and the vocals in particular seem to have lost their early strength. Lyrically the band are still very good but they come out quite mumbled and look better on paper than they sound in a song. The Charlatans sounding "Money Wheel" is a good example of this as is "She Looks Like Audrey Hepburn" which is a wonderfully written song but just doesn't work the way it would if they had gone from the flow of the first ...  Read the complete review