Something has happened to Kosheen. A couple of years ago their million-selling debut album Resist had marked them out as one of the most promising bands on the drun'n'bass circuit. On Kokopelli, however (named after a mythical Indian flute player), they've morphed into a much more conventional rock band - just as commercial but not nearly as interesting. Their Gothic trappings are still intact, but this time they're expressed through Garbage-like guitar assaults and doom-laded vocals from Welsh singer Sian Evans. Much of Kokopelli is impeccably catchy, but it's also wearyingly repetitive and, truth be told, more than a little bland. Kosheen take their name from an amalgam of the Japanese for 'old' and 'new'. Sadly, at the moment there appears to be far too much 'ko' and not nearly enough 'sheen'.
