• More Errors news, reviews, videos and tour dates
• Buy Errors music from Amazon
• Errors news RSS Feed

7 / 10 For every Kissy Sellout or Drums Of Death giving electro a bad name, for every po-faced post-rock meanderer that thinks they’re God’s gift just because they play guitar slowly, there’s sadly few Errors redressing the balance.

The young Glaswegian quartet’s 2008 debut ‘It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever’ was an exciting blast from the leftfield, its taut and funky post-everything dance music a heartening sign that both these much-abused genres had life in them yet.

It’s with mixed feelings, then, that we say that Errors’ second album… does pretty much the same thing. They’re still doing it better than anyone else; ravier than Foals, more fun than Fuck Buttons, flexing more post-hardcore muscle than Metronomy. It’s just that we kind of hoped they might surprise us again.

That said, if they’re not pushing any new envelopes, ‘Come Down With Me’ is still satisfying on its own terms. First single ‘A Rumour In Africa’ is euphoric and funky, locating the perfect middle ground between post-hardcore, post-rock and electro. ‘Supertribe’ is springy and exuberant, call-and-response guitar giving way to an itchy, restless electro-synth riff.

The bangers, as on their debut, are preferable to their more contemplative moments, which can tend towards the worthy; ‘Antipode’ finds them still too much in thrall to label bosses Mogwai, while the navel-gazing ‘Sorry About The Mess’ feels a little post-rock-by-numbers, Errors writing a song that they know sounds like an Errors song.

‘The Erskine Bridge’, by contrast, is much more interesting, a wind-chiming, ambient watercolour contemplation that’s impressively subtle, but hard to reconcile with the rest of the album. ‘The Black Tent’ nails a mournful mood just right, with more mellifluous guitar and a rolling, melancholic feel, gazing-sadly-out-of car-window music.

Much better are the tight, assertive rhythms of ‘Jolomo’, finding a sense of purpose that the album as a whole seems to lack and building to a menacing lurch. They save the best for last in the form of ‘Beards’, a krauty, sophisticated number that’s the most fun moment here. Its woozily oscillating, slightly seasick whirl leaves you feeling that this is a band who have much more development potential in them than they’ve displayed here.

Errors remain one of the most interesting young bands in the country, even if their second album isn’t quite difficult enough. Perhaps they could do with living up to their name and risking a few more mistakes.

Emily Mackay

What do you think of the album? Let us know by posting a comment below.

Click here to get your copy of Errors' 'Come Dine With Me' from the Rough Trade shop

NEW! For the latest music videos and backstage interviews, check out our brand new sister site, NME Video.

• Previous Album Review : Album Review: Amy Macdonald - 'A Curious Thing' (Mercury)
• Next Album Review : Album Review: The White Stripes - 'Under Great White Northern Lights' (Third Man/XL)

Date/Time	Venue	Town/City	Seetickets	Viagogo
Feb 12, 2012 19:00	The Rainbow	Birmingham	Buy Errors Tickets	Buy Errors Tickets
Feb 15, 2012 19:15	The Haunt	Brighton	Buy Errors Tickets	Buy Errors Tickets
Feb 16, 2012 19:00	London Xoyo	London	Tickets not currently available.	Buy Errors Tickets from £19
Feb 16, 2012 20:00	Xoyo	Shoreditch	Buy Errors Tickets	Buy Errors Tickets
Feb 17, 2012 19:00	The Cockpit	Leeds	Buy Errors Tickets from £9	Buy Errors Tickets