Chances are that if you are reading this you will have been in an indie club between now and 2005. And if that is the case, even higher chances are that you will have heard either 'Put You In Your Place' or 'Commercial Breakdown' at some point. Both are taken from The Sunshine Undergrounds debut album from 2006, 'Raise The Alarm', which I am struggling to name another song from, despite NME calling it the 'first great album of the new-rave scene' (how long did that last?). But that's not the point, the point was that TSU made great indie disco floorfillers, it has been 4 years since that album, and so will 'Nobody's Coming To Save You' be relevant any more, or even any good?
On first listen, the album was worth the wait (even though four years is too long to wait for any bands second album - I wonder how many 'die-hard' fans stuck around?). There is still the electro rhythms there that first got them labelled as 'new-rave' but the guitars this time are alot more driven and the vocals strained, at times sounding like an indie disco Muse and at other times sounding like a heavier Rapture. This might hold TSU in good stead, there isn't too much indie disco type material surfacing at the moment and those dance floors need to be filled; 'Nobody's Coming...' is filled with tracks that can do this, especially 'Coming To Save You' and 'We've Always Been You're Friends'. It's good to have the Sunshine back, and this is just as good as their debut - let's just hope there is still an audience for it.
