By Russell Barker

A.Rex are a band from Austin, Texas populated entirely by Andrews. The band that is, not Austin. This is their second album.

A cracker it is too. While there's the odd MOR moment (the title track and 'Old Enough'), the rest is top drawer. It kicks off with the Grandaddy/eels style weariness and vocals through a broken radio of 'Determined', with it's defeated lyrics of "what's the point in starting, if it's just gonna end".

Following that we get a leaden piano to give us a tale of how he can't live without the girl ('Hold My Hand'), then Mary Chain fuzzy guitar coupled with a maudlin Death Cab quality of 'I'm Not The Only One'. 'Lower Than Low' is a lovely piano ballad, just like Coldplay used to make before they blanded out. 'Rock n Roll' is delightful Pavement style slacker pop and there are great melodies in the warm country-ish 'So Hard'.