Kaiser Chiefs: 'Love's Not A Competition'

Tricky second albums. Hard-Fi appear to have fallen foul. Kasabian regurgitated their debut. The Killers lost their sparkle and went all Americana on us. And as for The Darkness' follow-up, some of us are still receiving therapy. So remember to be thankful when you dig out The Kaiser Chiefs' Yours Truly Angry Mob. One of the few acts from the early '00s that have not goofed up with album number two, they toed the tricky line between whacking out another copy of their debut and going all space-jazz on our ass.

'Love's Not A Competition' is an album highlight and a deserving third single. A gentle waltz that makes full use of Ricky's deep-throat Yorkshire growl, it shows the darker, brooding element of the Kaisers that often gets lost in the pomp and brouhaha of their party-pop. It should prove the soundtrack to a million sweaty smooches at their forthcoming arena gigs and a welcome relief to the mob of booze-hounds that are only in attendance for the rugby-scrum once the chorus to 'Ruby' kicks in.