Nature Nurture

Though they remain as lovable as ever, a lack of ambition and failure to settle on a signature sound sees the Yorkshire rock trio in danger of seeming irrelevant.

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Energetic, anthemic grunge is still the name of the game on Dinosaur Pile-Up's follow up to their debut Growing Pains. Just like on that LP, band founder Matt Bigland wrote and recorded all parts on Nature Nurture, a 35-minute whirl of fast-to-mid-tempo bangers, the kind that anyone vaguely familiar with the past twenty years of guitar music will have a reference point for.