When Kaiser Chiefs burst onto the UK music scene back in 2005 I found their music intriguing and the band themselves energetic and exciting. Their début album pleased me massively and was perhaps one of my favourite albums of 2005, most certainly the best début album I’d heard in a long while. Fast-forward to 2007 and the Kaiser Chiefs are onto album number two, only now without the flair and energy that made them so successful when they first emerged. Their sophomore effort ‘Yours Truly, Angry Mob’ I found to be a huge disappointment, and whilst listening found myself drifting off all too easily. ‘Love’s Not A Competition (But I’m Winning)’ was the fourth single to be lifted from the bands second album and is an ‘interesting’ one to say the least. With keyboards throughout likening the sound to that of Coldplay, the music of Kaiser Chiefs is here completely empty and devoid of any real sense of life. Whilst the chorus is catchy enough and will no doubt have you singing along as was always the case with their tracks, there just seems to be something missing here and the track therefore never really gets going. Whilst Kaiser Chiefs once possessed a great deal of energy, their music now embodies nothing more than complete emptiness.
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UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.
