If there’s anything the world doesn’t need, it’s Feeder adding synths to their already bland pop-rock. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Bauer sound like. The song ‘Starting Again’ itself is actually quite catchy, it has a good chorus but it is so poorly recorded that it has virtually no impact whatsoever. The vocals are lost in the wall of sounds during the chorus and as the vocalist doesn’t have the strongest voice, it’s quite a let down. B-side ‘The Lights Go Down ‘ is just a terrible song. To give you some idea just how poor it is, it actually sounds closer to Take That than anything else. Pointless balladeering made even worse by the fact the vocals were so obviously recorded in several takes and mashed together, and then ‘spiced’ up with a bit of unnecessary reverb. Very poor effort.
