Music for the People is the second studio album by Coventry-based indie rock band The Enemy, which was released 27 April 2009.

And, on this album, it was doing it in stolen moments between promo.The lead single, "No Time For Tears", was debuted on BBC Radio 1 on 17 February 2009, including an interview with the band discussing tour dates and their "new sound".

As part of the promotion for the album, the band played a number of gigs in small, intimate venues throughout February 2009, in Lincoln, York, Dundee, Wakefield, Tunbridge Wells and Corby.

[9] John Earls of Planet Sound saw the LP as a progression from the band's debut album, but found fault with the lyrical content.

Commenting on the opening track "Elephant Song", Drowned in Sound noticed its similarity to Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir".

[11] In The Independent, Andy Gill called the album's title "sinister...as if all other music were somehow against "the people" (whoever they are); or as if the band's modest creations had been officially sanctioned as fit for our ears".

He was sceptical of the album's political content, writing that "I'm instinctively suspicious about this kind of eagerly populist music, which invariably hides naked commercial ambitions behind a facade of oppositional posturing".