With the release of the album now only a month away – and available to pre-order right now – we spoke to Lex about wiping the slate clean and starting over again. It feels fresh and alive and urgent and a more than worthy addition to a back-catalogue that continues to flourish. Not in the way that Vs Everything was brilliant, but in a way that’s very much of its own making. You Can Do Better is released on March 10th, via Alcopop! Records, and it’s brilliant. Thankfully, despite any number of misgivings, follow it is exactly what they’ve done. The one obvious question that slowly started to emerge from the aftermath of that record was ‘ how on earth do you follow it?‘ Perhaps some of that was lost to the casual observer but even now if I try and take myself out of the situation, if that’s at all possible, it sounds pretty flawless, even despite its many flaws. A huge, lovingly sad epic pop record that was the very definition of what growing up alongside that band felt like to us, the fans. More than that though, it was the record that I wanted them to make. Awarding it our only 10/10 (back when we used to award scores to albums) it felt like the triumph they’d always been working towards, the pinnacle of all they could muster. When Johnny Foreigner released their previous record, Vs Everything, back in 2011 we celebrated with them.
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