Hard not to be tight when you're playing along to sequencers (and I do realise this is one of the most "yer da" comments of all time).
At the risk of repeating myself again, I went right off them after seeing them at the ABC in Glasgow not long after the first record came out. I thought it was alright, some wonderful tunes (namely Gun) in amongst some reasonably diverting tracks. But I was so disappointed with them live - it was two big lumps on keyboards and a girl singing. And that was it. At one point, one of the keyboard players had a shot on a bass guitar, but it was just so dull. The tracks sounded exactly the same as they did on the record.
You could well be right about having written a follow-up album too quickly, but this might be their niche. They're a band I can't imagine progressing beyond how they sound just at the moment. I don't think they're a bad band, not by any stretch, but I just don't understand why people fawn over them.