With the release of Battle For The Sun, Placebo frontman Brian Molko commits quite a bit of betrayal of the previous album Meds (2006). Artistically he is no longer very pleased with this (badly sold) album, the band was not happy about it, drugs, etc .. Battle For The Sun is the 'end well all good' product, with for the first time behind the drums the youthful Steve Forrest. Renewed energy is
… boosted with many uptempo songs, which sometimes even seem to approach the unbridled and brutal power of their unnamed debut album. Those who love the melancholic Molko more - such as on Without You I'm Nothing from 1998 but also on Meds - will only get their money's worth at the end with songs like Come Undone and Kings Of Medicine. But it might be more the band formula, of Molkos nasal voice and uniform guitar playing with many distorted resonant atonal notes and the otherwise fairly bare interpretation, with which Placebo is no longer able to surprise or impress on their sixth album. Despite all renewed energy. (MR)more
