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Yours Truly, Angry Mob

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 65 votes
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Album Info
Label: Universal
Release Date: 27 March 2007
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Indie, Rock
Summary
Stephen Street produced the British band's second album, which follows their acclaimed 2005 debut 'Employment.'
Also By This Artist: Employment Off With Their Heads
Also On The Web: Kaiser Chiefs @ MySpace Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Mojo
An album full of jukebox hits. [Mar 2007, p.98]
Uncut
Their second album manages to be full of surprises, while never straying too far from what you'd expect. [Mar 2007, p.80]
Observer Music Monthly
It starts out inchoate and hard to put your finger on, then coalesces into something wiry and unshakable.
Read Full Review >The Guardian
Call this album their application for recognition as one of the decade's major UK bands.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
This is serious fun. [Mar 2007, p.106]
Blender
Angry Mob delivers 13 consistently catchy tracks that bounce unrelentingly. [Apr 2007, p.115]
Read Full Review >Urb
On Yours Truly, Angry Mob, Kaiser Chiefs grow up, dig in and get utterly serious, albeit in a pogo-hopping, decadent British way. [Apr 2007, p.105]
Under The Radar
Where Employment featured lazy, loping grooves perfect for sing-alongs in clubs, YTAM showcases muscular power-chord guitar rockers that will make for great drunken shout-alongs in arenas. [#17, p.92]
Billboard
Like last time, the singles are better than the whole. [31 Mar 2007]
Spin
With such sharp detail, Kaiser Chiefs have elevated themselves from a singles band to a group that's capable of both having a laugh and making a focused statement about life's less gleeful side. [Apr 2007, p.92]
Hot Press
Although the tunes have plenty of vigour and aggression, as with Employment, Britpop veterans will feel more than a little sense of deja vu.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
'Yours Truly...' is a rip-roaring pop record - sprightly, lean and adventurous - a bold leap skyward from 'Employment'.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
The familiarity is comforting, but nothing here will make you jump up on the bar and headbutt a stranger. [30 Mar 2007, p.71]
The Phoenix
As Blur, Morrissey, and even Oasis learned the hard way, engaging in parochial social criticism — as much of Yours Truly does with its references to youth clubs and housing estates — doesn’t connect with more than a cult of Anglophiles here in the US.
Read Full Review >NOW Magazine
As on Employment, some songs spark with energy and others die in the first verse. Is a complete album asking too much?
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Yours Truly, Angry Mob is one of the catchier guitar records you'll hear all year... But the Kaiser Chiefs can also be a little shallow.
Read Full Review >musicOMH.com
Like its predecessor, the Kaisers' second album is patchy, but does have moments of brilliance.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Kaiser Chiefs scramble to reclaim ground already won, sticking with lazily hooky songs sporting overcranked arrangements. The result? Charmless fare like the bombastic UK hit single "Ruby," and loutish lad-rock like "Thank You Very Much" and "My Kind Of Guy," which sound simultaneously pushy and forgettable.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
The central flaw of Mob-- and it's a profound one-- is that its attempt to refine Employment's boundless levels of boyish vigor with introspection and intellect comes across as tired and bored.
Read Full Review >Paste Magazine
Wilson's fake tales of Middle England lack the sharp observational focus of the Arctic Monkeys, the bratty cleverness of Blur circa Parklife or even the sexy swagger of Franz Ferdinand. [May 2007, p.61]
BBC collective
Caught between essentially meaningless singalongs and trying to actually mean something, what you get is average power-pop with crass attempts at poetry.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
The melodies feel functional at best, surprisingly charmless affairs that push all the right buttons with little passion or joy, while the lyrics are that depressing rock cliche: woe-is-me deliberations on the pressures of fame.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
The sad thing is that while nobody expects Kaiser Chiefs to be re-inventing the wheel, we do expect a pretty rock-solid, perfect pop record. Yours Truly, Angry Mob most definitely isn't rock solid or perfect in any sense.
Read Full Review >Sputnikmusic
Yours Truly, Angry Mob is such a sloppily put-together album that it almost seems intentionally bad.
Read Full Review >Stylus Magazine
There’s simply no charm or subtlety on show here, and not even any cheeky, bona fide pop thrills in the vein of “Everyday I Love You Less & Less.”
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 65 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Garrett J. gave it a3:
With the title track and Ruby the only redeeming features, this album disappointed me.
Tony S. gave it a10:
Brilliant album. Great follow up. A real grower and as good as if not better than Employment.
Fabio F. gave it a9:
It´s a good album. They showed like do a great record, dancing, melodic and very funny. It´s good to have a record that everyone can sing together. Simple and objective.
Nick J152 gave it a10:
Not so energetic as the first album, but a wider range of mellodies. A great album, i listen to it over and over.
Emmanuel P. gave it a7:
It's not a bad record, but it isn't great neither. It's got a few good songs, but in general is a bit unconsistens, a bit messy.
Casey R Dubya gave it a5:
Ruby has got to be one of the weakest tracks I've heard in a while. This band has potential but they still haven't achieved it.
[Anonymous] gave it a4:
Disappointing follow up. Same sound but washed out without the hooks. Oh well.
