With their surprise success behind them, went ahead and essentially created a sequel to with only tiny variations, with mixed results. The fact that the album is essentially a redo of previously established stylistic ground isn't apparent in just the production, handled again by , or the overall sound, or even that one particularly fine song is called wasn't a laugh riot, to be sure, but starts to see take a more commanding and unfortunately much more self-conscious role that ended up not standing the band in good stead later. Lead single is the worst offender in this regard -- the heavy trudge isn't immediately suited for the band's strengths (notably, wrote this without ) -- while the subject matter -- the continuing Northern Ireland tensions -- ends up sounding trivialized. Opening cut is actually one of the band's best, with a lovely string arrangement created by , but her overdubbed vocals start showing her distinct vocal tics becoming a bit more gimmicky at the expense of the performance. Where succeeds best is when stick at what they know, resulting in a number of charmers like the uilleann pipes-touched which has an epic sweep that doesn't overbear like and the evocative [ adds the cover a remix of and a bonus track, ] ~ Ned Raggett