GREAT ALBUM!

Review Score: (8/10)
On the back of two outstanding albums, Placebo have released a moody attempt at being alternative. Opener Taste in Men is an original electronica composition that distances itself from the trademark Placebo sound. A nu-brand of metal is introduced with Spite and Malice which features rapper 'Warfield' who stereotypically warrants the explicit lyrics notice and fails to impress. The remainder of the album returns to the traditonal Placebo formula of soaring/descending guitars as Molko's unmistakeable voice bleeds through the distorted guitars.
'Slave to the wage', 'Special K' and 'Days before you came' highlight the brilliance that we have associated with the negatively love-lawn band but also how little they have progressed from 1998's epic 'Without you i'm nothing', the same hooks are here but they are just that, the same.

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