Kids In Glass Houses - Not In This World

Not In This World is in many ways a checklist of things you'd expect from Kids In Glass Houses: Football stadium-esque chants, a full-tilt chorus that seems fresh-poured from the end of a whisky bottle, and suitable amounts of guitar-shredding.

For me, it's not one of the best tracks on In Gold Blood - that honour falls to the more refined, melodious songs like The Florist or Fire - but its capturing of that Kids In Glass Houses essence makes it an obvious candidate as a single choice.

Just as the band have always deftly toed the line between the NME and Kerrang crowds, Not In This World is the encapsulation of that union they've striked out for with ever increasing accuracy on each of their LPs.

If songs like this make me miss the more care-free New Wave stylings of Dirt, it's only a temporary nostalgia, for as much as the likes of Matters At All had instant pop appeal, Kids In Glass Houses have made their new, grittier sound stick just as well. Rocking up in the scuffed jeans and leathers of In Gold Blood, it's now more than ever that they feel most at home.

Not In This World is available to download on iTunes now.