With mixed critical reactions, the Temper Trap’s sophomore effort is fast becoming labelled with the ‘difficult second album’ tag. It may have debuted at the top spot in the ARIA charts, but it’s sales in the UK were far more lacklustre, coming in at #17.
The Temper Trap are treading down a well worn path that their contemporaries, Jet and Wolfmother followed when they disappeared off the international radar with their own respective second albums. We look back at one of music’s most prominent diseases; ‘the difficult second album syndrome’ and the artists that succumbed to it or have managed to fight it.
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