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If the title hadn’t already given it away, the appropriately heavy opener "Elephant Song" makes their intentions clear from the off. Music For The People is a big stadium ready rock album, miles from the relatively parochial approach of the Enemy’s chart-topping 2007 debut We’ll Live and Die In These Towns. That record’s downbeat lyrical approach rankled with some, who wondered just what a band of young men who left school to sign a record deal were so grumpy about. But it was full of good tunes. And the Enemy remain aggrieved--the sparky, piano-led "51st State" bemoans a fading democracy while the witty "Be Somebody" is the sharpest comment on Britain’s enduring class system in years, echoed by the thumping closer "Silver Spoon". Cheerful they are not. The heroically resigned "Keep Losing" bears the definitive Enemy song title. Even the catchy "Sing When You’re In Love" is as gloomy as Glasvegas. Music For The People isn’t perfect. "Last Goodbye" could fit seamlessly on any Richard Ashcroft record--not a strong recommendation--and "Nation of Checkout Girls" lifts its melody straight from Pulp’s classic "Common People". But as an exercise in populism, a record that manages to combine the rowdiest moments of the Clash and Jam with the proven commercial potential of Stereophonics (and some slick harmonies oddly evocative of old Def Leppard tunes), Music For The People actually lives up to its title. --Steve Jelbert

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