Stereophonics — You Gotta Go There To Come Back

The title of this new 13 track release should have been You’ve Been There, Now Move Forward. This one can’t be considered truly horrible because it really isn’t, but the thing that buries it’s the fact that the band have let their Zeppelin-meets-Rod Stewart formula get ever so stale. It’s glaring on tracks like "Maybe Tomorrow" and "High As The Ceiling," where the derivative natural of it all is unbearable. You Gotta Go There To Come Back gets more than a little tedious near the end where the slow songs are jammed in the corner like clothes you never wear.