Where as Silent Alarm was a stereotypical Indie album, Bloc Party's second ventures ever so slightly into radio friendly rock.
After severl listens you have worked out the pattern of the tracks, most of them start quiet and build to a climax, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. The main exception being I Still Remember, which is, as i said, a prime example of the radio rock sound.
Waiting for the 7:18 is an electro oddessy, SRXT is a generic ending track, and Uniform is a synical, albeit true, commentary on young people, with a delicious modern prog-rock ending.
For all the pitfalls, this album is actually very good, and what with it being unimposing you can bung this on the CD player at whatever time of day, or mood you're in, and find it fits perfectly.
If I had to decide I would say this isn't as good as Silent Alarm, but not by much. The last few tracks don't do it for me as much as Plans and Compliments did. But the opening 5 tracks are solid gold.