Rudimental: Home – review

Rudimental are currently No 1 in the singles charts with Waiting All Night, a fusion of soul stylings and drum'n'bass, the chorus of which goes off in a way that seems likely to cause no end of falling over on a Friday night. It's the same combination that made Feel the Love a massive hit for this east London four-piece last year, and both tracks are present here. Largely, though, Home seems keen to show off the group's range. It takes in most genres of urban music, from gospel-flecked power-pop with Emeli Sandé on Free, via R&B on Hide, through to deep house in Spoons. Spoons is the first track the group worked on together, and has a certain harmony to it – a low, distilled groove matched by effortless vocals from Mnek. For all the genre-hopping that goes on elsewhere, that balance is never quite struck again. You catch several moments of inspiration – the trumpet solo in Feel the Love, the hook in Hell Freezes Over – but overall there's the sense of things having been made to a template.