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So despite the new outlook and lofty declarations, why does 'Falcon' fail to take off? The fault lies partly in Fray's parochial outlook.
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The problem isn’t in the songs themselves – there are plenty of choruses to sing along to, and some interesting lyrical snippets – it’s just that Fray has made such an effort to prove that he’s more than a swaggering Gallagher-ite that he smothers the record and doesn’t allow it to breathe.
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If only they worked a little harder at it, they could be so much more than indie fodder for those who find Kasabian's recent work a little too experimental.
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Its best track is a five-minute paean to a city left behind, and Elbow have already done the love letters to Manchester – and much more beautifully.
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UncutDespite the laudable ambitions of the arrangements, Fray's mundane eye-witness vignettes become wearying. [Mar 2010, p.82]