Harder rock as not as bleak on the previous albums, it.

With "Battle For The Sun" Placebo in 2009 aiming to be come a very big rock band one step closer. That might be because this album, at least for placebo conditions, rather light fare offers this but still come out high-profile rock songs. The sound has changed a bit with this album, which is partly due to the new drummer of the band, the more central to the music urges be quite convincing drumming as was the case with its predecessor Steve Hewitt. Also typical of very high placebo tuned guitars are rarer than they used to hear (which probably is also due to the mature voice of singer Brian Molko). A lot of the songs is quite loud and catchy (Ashtray Heart, For What It's Worth, for example) and not quite as melancholy how it should be lived with placebo. Total of the sound of the record somehow reminds of the 2000 album "Black Market Music" but is not so gloomy, but also (no musikallisch yet lyrically) so profound precisely by far. Furthermore, in the lyrics very personal, emotional stories are told, this is achieved good times such as the title track, however, they act partly somewhat superficial. A bit experimental is the track "Julien" which feels pretty electronically. Quiet moments are relatively rare to hear on this album. At the end of the album, there are some fairly quiet mid-tempo numbers and with "Kings of Medicine" to conclude with a real, beautiful ballad that also the Meds album might have come.
All in all, Placebo have a solid album heruasgebracht on the very beautiful melancholic songs (eg Bright Lights) as well as hard-rocking songs (eg Kitty Litter) found. However, a little the atmosphere lacks the earlier albums surrounded as it rather a string of songs here is the part are virtually indistinguishable from the sound forth from a "Allerweltsrockband", off of which is the production of this album, for a band of this size not particularly exhilarating.