Given To The Wild

Shifting gears from their first two records, the UK band's newest features production from Tim Goldsworthy and aims for a sound closer to Foals and Wild Beasts.

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It’s an urban myth that bands are not nurtured by record labels anymore.

The once-promising Maccabees mimic the sound of Coldplay on their make-or-break third album, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>

<p>The Maccabees may not be the future of rock'n'roll. But they seem&nbsp;to have finally made their breakthrough, says <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong></p>

The Maccabees grow in stature with Given to the Wild.

I was pretty sure I could hear the sound of a kitchen sink being chucked into the mix on "Feel To Follow", the third track on The Maccabees' third album. The London-based quintet has certainly lobbed everything else into the mix to deliver a long player (an old-school term for an old-school album) that looks set to be a fixture in both student union bars and end-of-year charts. Given to the Wild is easily the band's most mature album yet, even if it does wear its influences a little too noisily.