"'Wicked Nature' is a portrait of progression: album one - rich, meaty - is Nicholls' first spot in the producer's chair alongside You Am I's Paul McKercher. By the (weaker) album two, he's in full control and favouring a sparse, more hollow timbre that doesn't help fend off the inevitable onset of soundalike grunge fatigue by the time you get to 'Darkest Shadow'. A little more variation would have been nice, but you know what they say about stopped clocks...".