The story of You Decide is one of a band frequently at war with itself, but some credit is due to The Rank Deluxe because that doesn't show in the record itself. Even though the band have apparently fought on stage on multiple occasions, and their music juggles rock, punk and reggae influences, they've somehow managed to create a fairly cohesive set of songs here. The problem is that too many of these tracks are themselves lacking a concerted direction, and are instead content to send guitars sprawling around aimlessly under the frankly loutish-sounding vocals - on "Even No-one Can Be Someone", the music only periodically crystallises into the propulsive rock that the band are trying to achieve, the rest of the time it wriggles and squirms on the edges of its ambition. And that's true of much of the album - You Decide wants to be aggressive and exciting, but the songs don't hang together well enough to achieve that.Take "Rapid Eye" as an example. It's a total mess, really - a clumsy rock/reggae hybrid with cringeworthy faux-rasta vocals, it sounds more like a ham-fisted studio bash-about than it ought to. "Punk fury" is all very well, and a healthy dose of ramshackle aesthetics has improved many a record over the years, but the shoddy feel here is to the detriment of the songs, which aren't classics to begin with.There are moments where You Decide does work - the opening bassline to "Stereotypes", for example, or the admirable brevity of "Save It For Tomorrow" - but for all its social awareness and attempts at guitar heroics, this is a below average rock record with no real stand-out songs. Plenty of superior rock records have come out recently, and there's probably a better one even in the narrow "London-lout-rock-reggae-opus" remit which The Rank Deluxe patrol. 36% The Rank Deluxe on MySpace