Each song (with the exception of only a few) is strong, with beats that grab you, keep hold, and don't easily let go. From the opening track, it makes it hard for the listener to not 'save the one last dance' for the band. "Bad Days" continues this stranglehold on the listener, with an infectious beat, that left me with difficulty keeping toes from tapping. It's a shame this isn't a bigger hit on the dancefloors yet, as this one would be a great floorfiller. Another solid contender is "Mis-takes". Despite its slightly darker overtone, this track is another one with a great beat, and one that will leave the audience singing along with Tim Burgess in looking down the barrel of a gun.

Unfortunately this winning streak is slightly let down by "The Misbegotten". It's another one with a strong beat, but unfortunately not a solid tune. The lyrics and opening beats are a bit too reminiscent of 60s propaganda films from the US, where the teenagers are driven crazy by 'reefer madness' and do things like talk back to their parents. It leaves one with difficulty in taking it seriously as a song. Another slightly less successful song is "A Day For Letting Go", which feels a bit too much like a filler track, and thrown in perhaps because of need to fill up time, rather than being a song as worthy of the album as the first three undoubtedly are.

Luckily the band get back into the swing of things with "You Cross My Path", a tight number with a good beat and bass hook, along with a superbly sung chorus that would be a great danceclub number. The clubgoers singing loudly to "I will ride dooown again" are easily imagined, and with such lyrics demand it, really. Directly following is another single and danceclub contender, "Missing Beats (Of A Generation)", with lyrics that speak of 'disappointments and frustration' and memories of a lost chance when the singer's focus was 'just 16'. Whether it speaks more of Tim Burgess's regret with past decisions, or the fact that it's too easy to ignore more gloomy lyrics when a good beat is present is anyone's guess. It's just a good tune, is what I choose to focus on.

Unfortunately, this momentum is again let down by "My Name is Despair", which sounds like a Doors reject, during their more-highly-drug-fuelled-than-usual era. The tune just seems to drone on a bit too long, and the maudlin lyrics are harder to ignore without a toe-tapping tune to balance them. And the middle portion, with Native-American type yodelling just sounds a bit over the top. It may have been added on to contribute to the artisticness of the tune, but unfortunately just adds to the desire to press fast forward.

Thankfully, again, the tone picks up with "BIRD", a track that makes you long for summer days, sipping Pimm's (insert drink of choice here), summer festivals and lazy days of youth. This somewhat shorter-length track, clocking in at only 2 minutes, 35 seconds, is followed by "This Is The End", aptly named as it's, well, the end of the album. If you ignore the possibility that this will become a set-closer-inevitability for future Charlatans gigs, it's a good track and another one that would be nicely timed with summer festivals, lazy afternoons and the like. And in the US, the temptation to use it for high school graduations, with its chorus of 'I will be set free', is only just a bit too predictable, but easily enough ignored so you can simply enjoy the song.