PETER BJORN AND JOHN Living Thing (2009 US 12-track CD album - there was always going to be chatter as to how Peter Bjorn and John would follow up their album Writers Block a true pop phenomenon. Would they try to replicate their earlier success? Or go out of their way to release a willfully difficult new album? In actual fact what they have done is a bit of both - and neither - all at the same time. Bolstered by the bands production the first taster of the album Lay it Down was a delightfully off-kilter riposte and the rest of the album walks a similar tightrope of melody and mayhem pulsing with life bursting at the seams with energy and vitality and shot through with warmth and excitement and wonder; presente