YOU'RE right to be suspicious when bands order up a remixed version of an album, especially a debut. Are they unsure of the original? Are they just squeezing a few extra bucks out of fans? Is the second album taking too long?
Silent Alarm arrived in a flurry of favourable reviews and good intentions. This remixed version lacks the urgent roar of the motherlode but has more than enough oomph to please fans and more casual observers alike.
Stand out - by far - is Engineers' spacious dabbling on the album's most graceful moment, Blue Light.
Elsewhere, those icy maidens of Ladytron turn Like Eating Glass into a moody monolith; while the ever eccentric Four Tet tips Bloc Party's big hit So Here We Are on its head and tickles its feet.
Nick Churchill
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