Onerepublic News: OneRepublic - Waking Up

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Musical magpies by their own admission, the “sum of a bunch of parts”, Colorado-formed pop-rockers OneRepublic aren’t afraid to confess their unoriginality. Of course it helps that their debut, Dreaming Out Loud, sold by the skip load and that sole creative force Ryan Tedder has a tidy sideline in writing for artists like Leona Lewis and Westlife to supplement the day job income. But financial matters aside, it’s refreshing to see a band accepting that they’re nothing remotely special.

As that’s precisely what One Republic are. Second album Waking Up is a set of polished arrangements so middle of...