Employment is a good debut from Kaiser Chiefs who are slightly overrated especially after they won 3 Brit awards beating the masters Coldplay for best band. Some great songs here though.

I got a free copy of the Kaiser Chiefs Employment from a friend, but I must say I was really disappointed. I just think they are so overrated and not a patch on the second division punk bands of the late seventies who they imitate, and who weren't that good in the first place anyway. They also seem a bit arrogant. "You are not that good lads!" Don't pretend you are. It's just vaguely interesting post-modern singalong rubbish for the student brigade, and the young macho lads about town. Give me Sham 69 any day!

Kaiser Chiefs, Employment - This is one of the year's most highly anticipated debuts, and any band that can start a song with the line "Watching the people get lairy / is not very pretty I tell thee," is definitely worth a listen. Unfortunately, that lyric is probably the highlight of an album which, while decent, does not fulfill the promise of the early singles.

Where the Kaiser Chiefs are good, they are very good, such as on "I Predict a Riot," "Oh My God," "Everyday I Love You Less and Less," and "Time Honoured Tradition." At their best they are unusual, energetic, edgy and raw. They write songs about interesting and topical things and you can feel the buzz coming off the tracks. Where they are less good, such as on "Modern Way," they sound like a band trying to jump on the new-British-indie-rock-scene bandwagon, all '80's plinky synths, bland guitars and Flock of Seagulls vocals and do tend to make me worry that they could be the first casualty of the current flock of British bands, perhaps as the Menswe@r to Bloc Party's Blur. The good tracks are good enough, however, to give them the benefit of the doubt and to make me assume that these hiccups are more a result of poor production than of pedestrian songwriting.

The Kaiser Chiefs' debut certainly hints that this band has the potential to do great things. They are excited and they can be very exciting. So hopefully, the next go round they'll drop the filler and give us more to shout about.