Intriguingly, the title track is just 95 seconds long, but it’s a heavy 95 seconds that forms the emotionally draining intro for the album’s swansong, Love Took The Last Of It. It’s in that song that you feel the culmination of not just the previous 40 or so minutes, but the band’s career to date. As with their first album, No Good left To Give finds strength in weakness. It doesn’t necessarily make good of a bad situation, because the bad stuff is very much present and live in these songs here, but it shows that the void and the emptiness is not necessarily all-encompassing – that, however hard at times it may be to remember this, there is always hope.
Verdict: 4/5
For Fans Of: Boston Manor, Balance And Composure
No Good Left To Give is released on September 18 via Fearless.
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