Customer Reviews
Good, worth getting - By: Stephen J. Charlton, 03 Sep 2008 
I have listend to this album & thought it is a good listen through. the 1st time i listend i was not that sure. 2nd time i listened it was brill. you can tell they put effort into each track. their is a great track on the album called 'heat dies down' which i think is the best track on the album. if you like rock & indie rock buy this... its a gooden.
A Disappointment - By: You are reading my username, 19 May 2008 
I'm not gonna lie - I thought Employment was an utterly brilliant record. It made me quite obsessed with the chiefs that yeah & is stillin my Top 20 all time favourite albums which is saying something.
So you can imagine how heartbroken I was when I finally heard this. Yes, it's good but nothing special at all, certainly notin the way the first one was. I was so excited for the record I downloaded bad quality live rips off the internet & loved what I was hearing - a more serious direction with still some great music. But unfortunatley Lightning never strikesin the same place twice & Stephen Street turned those brilliant tunes into something quite bland.
With Employment I listened to a track off it pretty much every day for a year, with YTAM I listened to it a number of times when it was first released & then put it on the shelf. I haven't listened to itin ages.
The cover is beige. There's a song called "Everything is Average Nowadays". Oh the irony. The video for the title track - The Angry Mob, is appauling. They're working with one of the most evil menin music Mark Ronson for LP3. Unfortunatley, the same band who did Employment have now totally lost me.
Best songs on the album are - Thank You Very Much, Love's Not A Competition & lead single Ruby.
B-sides are among the bands best work but thier fewin number - but whenever you get the chance grab a listen of Admire You or Out Of My Depth, two brilliant songs. Unfortunatley, leaving the songs on the record would've given the album a little flavour & we dont want that.
Hits and Miss - By: Ghostwheel, 12 Mar 2008 
Most people will have heard "Ruby" & "The Angry Mob", & both deserve to be successful singles, being both anthemic & sophisticated.
Unfortunately the rest of the album, while not bad, is fairly derivative, & inspiration is rather sparse. Many of the tracks could easily be mistaken for Blur, with a touch of the Jam & the Coral thrown in. However, these would, without exception, be album fillers for those bands.
All-in-all not too bad, but certainly not great.
Can I send it back???? - By: Reedy, 23 Feb 2008 
what a load of tosh. They sound like they are trying too hard, but falling short. I have tried to listen to this a number of times to see if it grows on me, but sadly to no avail!
Thank you very much! - By: A. Sweeney, 17 Feb 2008 
'Yours Truly, Angry Mob' was always going to be a very high-profile release given the outstanding success of their debut, 'Employment' & their second album has, without doubt, proved that The Kaiser Chiefs are no one album wonder, delivering an album that is, arguably, every bit as good as their first. The secret to the success is combining slightly dark, intelligent lyrics that many 'real' people can almost certainly relate to with some of the most annoyingly brilliant catchy mainstream indie (how's that for an oxymoron?) music. They combine the best elements of both the popular, rabble-rousing Oasis & the witty, subversive Blur very effectively & yet are always unmistakeably The Kaiser Chiefs.
I doubt if there are many people who have heard 'Ruby' on the radio & then have been left desperately trying to get that chorus out of their head and, if you listen to the whole of this album, there are many other hooks which will drive you crazy as you start singing it for perhaps the seventeenth time that day. It does, however, make me wonder just how many people outside the UK will be able to relate to some of their lyrics which are very typically working-class Britain at it's best & worst, whether it's talking about 24-hour drinking yob culturein 'The Angry Mob' or growing up hanging around the streetsin 'High Royds', a song that is reminiscent of Blur at their 'Parklife' peak. Oddly enough, this particular album has received criticism from both Liam Gallagher & Damon Albarn who liken 'Yours Truly, Angry Mob' to 'bad Blur'. I respectfully disagree.
Disillusion, alienation, violence & discontentment (Everything Is Average Nowadays) are all themes running through this album, but it never seems to be anything other than an exciting, enjoyable listen & that's a pretty neat trick to pull off. For me, 'Yours Truly, Angry Mob' has only strengthened my admiration for this band & has banished any uncertainty I felt about The Kaiser Chiefs after 'Employment'. There may have been some mixed reviews about this release, but I have to agree with those who have lavished praise on it - Ricky Wilson & co. have certainly won me over. Thank you very much!
