After coming back to chart success (as The Poppy Fields) with 45RPM and then releasing their first studio album for over a decade (In The Poppyfields) The Alarm are releasing a third single from the album. The likeness to early U2 us so strong it cannot go without mention. Close has the earnest, and slightly […]

The Alarm - dropping a temporary moniker of The Poppyfields that they adopted for the release of the first single from this album, 45 RPM - have returned on good form. The album begins, in a style reminiscent of The Cult, on true rocking form with Coming Home. The grand, anthemic sound continues with Close, […]