Following the overtly childlike/childish tweeness of their debut album Dragons Are the New Pink, Julius Airwave return with a more mature, serious album that's unfortunately lacking in personality.

The City the Forest is faceless indie rock that bites from just about every interesting band of the previous five years, as well as Coldplay.

Seriously, the whole early-U2-plus-piano sound of the centerpiece track "Nannerl" is so overtly Coldplay-like that the most we can hope is that it's some kind of deadpan parody of Chris Martin's crew and not in fact the baldfaced stylistic plagiarism it comes across as.

That severe low point aside, The City the Forest is basically inoffensive.

Singer/songwriter Rick Colado doesn't seem to have many original ideas, and close inspection of the songs further reveals their flaws, but under casual listening, Julius Airwave sound like a minor entry in the post-Flaming Lips indie-psych canon, somewhere well beneath Grandaddy and the Dears.

The only question is whether that's enough.