I love The Bravery! They have a The Killers and Franz Ferdinand feel to them. Great lasting appeal, it's been months and I still love them. Every song is catchy and unique. But written reviews on music are virtually meaningless. You shouldn't take our word for it, everybody's taste in music is different. So scroll back up there and start sampling!

The second album by The Bravery is a radical departure from The Bravery, in a major improvement. Gone are the Duran Duran/Killers imitative songs and pseudo-new wave posturing, in are melodic songs with acoustic underpinnings. While a comparison to the radical shift The Killers made with Sam's Town is more than a little apt, The Bravery sound more like they boned up on Coldplay, The Rembrandts, The Cure or even a little Pink Floyd when they started laying the groundwork for "The Sun and The Moon."

The album is a low key affair, without the obvious single that marked "An Honest Mistake." But given time, "Time Won't Let Me Go" and "Believe" stay in your memory. There are a couple of darker moments, like "Tragedy Bound," about a woman so hard luck that "She's cutting herself just to see if it works." If you miss the breezy, easy pop of the debut, there's "Bad Sun," with an inescapable whistling hook.

They have not completely escaped their past, however. "Every Word is a Knife In My Ear" is on a par with "Stop Drop and Roll" from the debut as filler and "Split Me Wide Open" is way too heavy handed lyrically for its own good. Main Braveheart Sam Endicott can be proud of this effort, though. With "The Sun and The Moon," he and his fellow Bravery mates have transcended their roots and made an album that shows a band with more promise than their debut would have led you to contemplate.

This album is a solid addition to any fan of the genre (I abstain from giving the genre a more defined title because music genres are near-impossible to define). Great tracks in a great overall sound.

I liked the Bravery but when I saw them in concert I started to love them. This album of theirs to me has the same tune in every song but it's a great tune and in turn a great album.

The Bravery came out a few years ago in the midst of the new wave re-emergence that the Killers apparently ushered in. Sorry to bring up that band, but it seems that there was a little competition between them and the Bravery, even to the point that frontman Sam Endicott and Killers frontman Brandon Flowers were involved in some kind of feud. Maybe that's why The Sun and the Moon doesn't sound so new wave-ish.

As another reviewer suggested, this feels more like your basic alternative album than anything else -- not that it's bad or anything. While there isn't necessarily anything on here that'll make you stop what you're doing, there ARE some highlights, like "Time Won't Let Me Go", "Fistful of Sand" and especially "Angelina" (the song that inspired the album's title). And "The Ocean" brings the album to a close nicely.

Some songs go a little overboard with the metaphors, however, like "Every Word is a Knife in My Ear" and especially "Split Me Wide Open". Everything else is okay, so if you have the Bravery's self-titled album and enjoy it, then you shouldn't have a problem with The Sun and the Moon either.

Anthony Rupert