One might have guessed it ...

... Sepia-colored cover, GLOBAL NETWORK title because the calculus already peeping around the corner with a twinkle. And after the first few bars is also clear that The Boxer Rebellion are unfortunately fallen into the ubiquitous Coldplay trap. Namely, with both feet in the middle pure. That must now find not necessarily a bad thing per se, because leaves against fluffy cuddly hymns in the frosty winter little objection. But who in 2005 liked the significantly more angular debut found "exits" that it is already rankle vigorously that Londoners just choose your current followers the path that before them other bands similar ambitious launched as Razorlight, Keane or Snow have wide trampled Patrol - Title of Short bio: From predator to rug, Last Exit Serial Jingle. Would not have been the mentioned on the "exits" no songs with icing that's been there too well to hear, but they were not the rule but the exception. Now, however, remains Nathan Nicholson's voice without significant interruption limited to an eternally barmendes falsetto, the music seems almost invariably smoothed out - when's it again goes against the grain as "Evacuate" one flinches formally to the same in connection with the overly sweet dripping " Soviets "again discouraged to sink into the pillows. Little better afterwards, the head buzzes a wailing from the ton lyrics, all the choirs and gigantic piled melody mountains and if you close your eyes to an almost obsessive the last episode of Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice pushes etc. in mind. With some benevolence perhaps "Forces" towards the end of a ray of hope, even if a match is sufficient in the murky darkness of this Plüschsoße. A pity, lost another band to the kitsch, which is quite enough for longer would.