Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Else Has Gone Wrong review

The Guardian 40

(Mmm... Records)
BBC’s fifth album is a disappointment: crowded, ill-written and lacking conviction, it sounds like what it will swiftly become: an ad soundtrack

Even when reunions are no longer surprising but inevitable, Bombay Bicycle Club’s return is striking: just four years after they split, here is a fifth album, made after they met to discuss playing 10th anniversary shows for their 2009 debut and realised they missed making music together. It’s curious that Everything Else Has Gone Wrong started from a nostalgic impulse. For all that BBC put a cosy spin on 2010s jittery indie, they pushed and evolved beyond their twiddly peers: their bright final album, 2014’s So Long See You Tomorrow, dabbled in the global music influences that frontman Jack Steadman later explored as Mr Jukes.