Keep Calm and Carry On from 2009 found Stereophonics struggling to find a decisive way forward, and while Graffiti on the Train is a significant improvement, it's still something of a patchwork affair, lurching between string-laced pieces like the elegaic title track and ?Indian Summer?, soulful blues odes such as ?Been Caught Cheating? and ?No-one's Perfect?, and out-and-out rockers like the swaggering ?Catacomb?.

But it features some of Kelly Jones's most impressive songwriting, notably on ?Violins and Tambourines?, and ?Graffiti on the Train? .by Andy Gill