Described as a "ballsier Feeder" (talk about damning with faint praise), Hundred Reasons are a big noise among the new wave of Brit rockers. Opening track Savanna has Colin Doran wailing, "Get on your knees for saviours." They have reason to be confident about their second album, a distinctly British alternative to American knuckle draggers like Korn.

Though rife with the self-inflicted angst expected of an "emo" band, it's couched in melody. There are enough lighter-wavers here, the melancholic Still Be Here and Harmony among them, to make the charts.

If Doran's feel-my-pain introspection, pitched between Eddie Vedder and Nick Drake, rouses suspicions that he's too girly to rock, there are plenty of huge guitars to dispel the thought: the single What You Get is a landfill of volume - yet, like the rest of the album, passes the shoutalong test.