>>126730523This, and they’re one of the worst cases of bands that change their styles I have ever seen. I’m pretty sure that’s why Mike Chiplin left once he heard the direction the band was going in, just went from groove-ish alt rock/metal to pop slop in a whim, and he wasn’t having it. And then after the sellout album, they get pwned by the figureheads who’ve realized that their swap was too sudden and not profitable enough to sustain them, as well as the head nonce being a liability vocally and at live shows, and Lee Gaze not actually writing the songs that he wants to hear like he said he wanted to do before.
Even during their first two albums, they’re just average for their scene, with a bit more groove or heart than a few other copypaste bands around the same time, but nothing ultimately notable, and ended up like the one-hit wonders that they are in the States, and only multi-hit wonders instead of household names in the UK.