The Ride

The Welsh quartet call to mind the best of Oasis and Razorlight on their second album

Catfish and the Bottlemen make no bones about their stadium-level ambitions. For years, they claim in interviews, the Welsh four-piece have thought of themselves on the scale of bands like Arctic Monkeys and Oasis, seeking to make music that simultaneously induces dancing and feels, songs that strike at both the heart and the instinct.

The Brit-winning rock quartet’s second album is crowd-pleasing but unadventurous

Aiming themselves squarely at the lowest common denominator, Van McCann and co make meat-and-potatoes music for festival crowds to punch the air to