THE album name captures the mood perfectly as Glasvegas follow their auspicious 2008 debut with an 11-track LP which is at times more uplifting yet no less atmospheric.

Having supported U2 on tour, the Glaswegian quartet have designs on selling out stadia themselves and the cavernous, reverberating sounds they emit would fill vast arenas. Also, tracks such as Dream Dream Dreaming are not unlike their Celtic cousins in their early days.

After the solemn and unnecessarily long intro of Pain Pain Never Again – a title which perhaps hints at frontman James Allan’s past overdose – the album picks up and, although the swirling, grandiose melodies aren’t immediately catchy, tracks do get under the skin. Whatever Hurts You and the haunting I Feel Wrong – one of two songs about a gay friend’s coming-out woes – sound more Ultravox than U2, but that’s no bad thing, especially in this ’80s-influenced era.

Euphoria, Take My Hand and Lots Sometimes provide a somewhat paradoxical aural high. Then, like a post-drugs low, the quiet, gritty outro, Change, brings the listener back down in a glut of poignancy, and back round to the beginning.