exactly 'templates' -or more correctly badly traced facsimilies that the record company told them to copy as they were trawling around the archives of 1981 and thinking 'what an we sell back to the kids' - if they left it a couple of years, these lame clothes horses would be sounding like late-Visage - when are you going to wake up to the fact that major backed indies are doing exactly what ruthless majors and simon Cowell etc are doing - selling you a product in the same way that phone companies sell ringtones and surly albanians sell fags on Holloway Road - if you accept that then great but please dont look for any cultural or critical depth in these catlogue-models-with-guitars

There's more variety on the album i'd say (i'm thinking that's why they've omitted Little Thoughts), there are two definate templates like you said,

1. Up tempo/angular/fast riffs/big drums- Helicopter, Luno, Like Eating Glass

2. Chilled/love themed/complete lack of distortion- Blue Light, This Modern Love, So Here we are

But there are a few that don't fit either, and not even happily in between, Compliments is really quite Interpol lite, and She's hearing voices doesn't really fit in either..

I guess this depends on you actually having heard the album, but anyway, the album is very good. end.