Things went pretty well last week as we delved into the formative years of Placebo. The era that many fans consider to be the band’s peak. This week we discuss everything post Meds and our views are…well, let’s just say they are decidedly less rosy. With 2009s Battle for the Sun Brian made a lot of noise in the press about how this was a band searching for, and finding, a new identity. That much is true as the band’s sound is a lot more open, optimistic and less melancholic. Perhaps getting sober played a big part in that? Either way, things sound less nihilistic. Which is somewhat divisive for us because we felt that perhaps they should have continued to plunder on what their signature sound. Or, perhaps, maybe taken other measures… We do end the episode on a thrilling high though as we discuss the band’s self titled debut album at length and folks, it might be 27 years but it still does the business.