Take That: Progressed – review

(Polydor)This chaser to their enormous 2010 comeback album, Progress, brings more lovable nonsense from the manband whose recent misadventures include getting stranded in the palm of a giant robot (Howard and Mark had to be rescued during a recent show on their UK tour). The squelching synths and macho stomp of single "Love Love" set the standard: silliness, grandiosity and hefty if lyrically dubious choruses. "We are the aliens/ God loves the aliens," the lads sing on "Aliens", while an ET voic...

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