Electronica dance veterans Phil and Paul Hartnoll’s 10th studio album is musically varied and dynamic, and powerfully examines the self-deceiving chaos of the last few years with a variety of guest vocalists. Ringa Ringa (The Old Pandemci Folk Song) features Medieval Baebes intoning that plague ditty to beats and electronica. Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods pulls no punches on former Song of the Day Dirty Rat, aimed at Brexiteers and immigrant haters “Blaming everyone at the bottom of the English Channel / Blaming everyone who doesn't look like a fried animal / This is espionage and you're the self-saboteur”). Other standouts Are You Alive? (with Penelope Isles), Japanese electronicist Coppé has a ghostly presence on the oddball Moon Princes, while On Home, the beautiful voice of Anna B Savage points out how we could “tear it all down, brick by brick, town by town”. Not every guest vocal track are the same quality, and there are several instrumental standouts, particularly Requiem for the Pre-Apocalypse and The New Abnormal, and the strangely alluring distortions on You Are the Frequency. Out on Orbital Recordings / London Records.
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