what bonzo said. 2 reviews are a cop-out. The album is amazing, the negative review was a real case of hedging your bets. Less indecision please from Cluas or you'll turn into Foggy Notions

Perhaps I didn't express myself as clearly as I could have, I wrote that in the context of me having some trouble reconciling the poor quality of the music against the positives that Turner brings to the table and deciding whether or not the positives outweighed the negatives, I do go on soon after to say that ultimately they don't so I think that's quite a clear and definate opinion. But your point is taken on board and I thank you for taking the time to make it. I certainly never set out to write a negative review, I had expected to not like it based on the 3 songs that I had previously heard but didn't pop the album into the player with the intention of s**tting on it, if I had been pleaseantly surprised and did like the album it would have been a positive review. But in the interest in transparency I'll admit that I was given a review copy of it based on opinions I'd expressed in the past that the band aren't all they're cracked up to be, but as I said, if the album changed my mind about them then I would have said so. As to whether or not we should be having multiple reviews or not I think it's a good thing, no one's opinion is ever "correct" and I think it's useful to have a counterpoint at times.

Agreed on the multiple reviews thing there, I can't seem to find a positive review of The Strokes new album & it's upsetting me cause I loves it I do.

I don't think reviews are about finding one to suit your own opinion. Reviews are as much about the writing as they are about someone expressing their individual opinion. Personally, I'm not really into multiple reviews in one outlet. In the interest of showing a variety of opposing angles, it often ends up expressing nothing but confusion.

Sometimes though, it does'nt go amiss to have opposing points of view. For example, I often look at the reviews on Amazon.com for books and cd's and the like. The reviews are often one-sided in that this cd is the best album ever.....or this book will blow you over.....blah, blah, blah. Its refreshing to see someone else say that its well actually crap. More so, when you buy the bloody thing on the strength of the review, take it home and realise its s**te. Then you wonder what these peopele are talking about.

The fact that there is no editorial bias is of the most attractive things about Cluas. As was discussed here only a few weeks ago, NME editors re-jigged their own writer's best of the year poll!! Bugger that, I'd sooner read an articulate but honest review any day, even if I don't agree with it. Me, I thought the negative review was very astute as it pretty much sums up how I feel about the Artic Monkeys. I am a huge fan of punk and post punk music and if the mood took me, I could pick out dozens of bands playing photofit Artic Monkeys music 25 years ago. IMHO, compared to many of the bands they pay homage to, the music just ain't that good.

As long as the reviews are well written, and cover different territories to each other, I'm more interested in having them available than not.