Album Review: The Vamps - Wake Up

British baby-faced popsters The Vamps are back with their second album and while their vocal talents can't be faulted, squeaky-clean production has once again clearly been at their disposal.

Whatever additional touches the four lads might have brought to the table have been smothered by Wake Up's awful lyrics and mundane song structures, then smeared with character-less varnish. The self-titled single is anthemic and probably the most easily digestible, then the ridiculously worded Volcano follows ("Give me a tear drop/I'll give you an ocean") and it's one quick descent into hell from there. One-dimensional at best just about sums up Wake Up.