Even the most brilliant songwriters would be hard pressed to top a masterpiece like the Verve's 1997 smash, "Bittersweet Symphony," but the Verve broke up before ever having to. Eleven years later, the reunited band sounds remarkably at ease - a mixed blessing - on its new album, which sees guitarist and creative force Nick McCabe returning to fold yet again. The Verve once walked the line between Britpop and shoegaze with a swan's balance. Now, like latter-day U2, McCabe, frontman Richard Ashcroft, and company employ strings, disco beats, and spare atmospheres for an unabashedly light and polished sound. "Forth" is probably the album the Verve would've made had it stayed together. It shouldn't give fans anything to be unhappy about, but it captures the band coasting on its strengths rather than striving to make the grand statements that paid off so well in the past.
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