With much promise of returning with a CD from a specially selected list of just over twenty albums, my sister came back recently from a shopping trip with the fantastic third outing from Surrey rock trio Reuben, "In Nothing We Trust".

Racecar is racecar backwards was an altogether fantastic debut that impressed in all the essential areas, but I passed entirely on the second album (such is musical development and trends), forgetting about them almost entirely, though still keeping that intense love for the debut record. In Nothing We Trust then is a fantastic follow-up to those styles and sounds already established both in the previous album and indeed the even earlier stuff, and a successful one at that.

Frontman Jamie Lenman as ever is an individual composed of different sounds and traits, going from hardcore to melodic whispering in mere seconds and verse changes, the music of course adjusting to the changes with such rapid succession and careful execution, making for perhaps one of the most intense and interesting rock acts from the UK, as well as subsequently, mental queries as to why they're not bigger. There's no faulting Lenman's contribution to the songs, usually making them what they are, but the album also features Million Dead's Frank Turner on the slow-burning and grungy Deadly Lethal Ninja Assasin, to mixed success.

Elsewhere, the second track of the tracklisting, We're All Going Home In An Ambulance is evidence enough however of this afore-mentioned split-personality, with the opening two thirds of the track providing a raw and guitar wailing affair, all burried under intense screaming and drumming. It's an undoubted album highlight, most noticeable at the point where the song pacing and style changes completely and breaks down into calm melodic swinging and grooves. Closing track A Short History Of Nearly Everything follows similar dynamics, as does, almost appropriately, half the album. Good Luck, appearing roughly midway through the listen changes everything. A slow balladic affair with guest vocals from Hannah Clarke and no changing point, it comes as a complete surprise from a band as heavily notorious as that of Reuben, but it works entirely purely for such individuality, and reinforces that idea that Reuben are as variable as human emotion itself.

In Nothing We Trust is a fantastic follow-up album to a band already renowned and adored in cult circles and rockfans alike. While it doesn't seem as strong or as longlasting as that fantastic debut, this outing is exceptional and unique, and certainly, a sound and schizophrenic style that more UK rock acts should aspire to.