Third album across a decade of of signature thumping bangers of big fuzz guitar, heavy drums and high rock from the Brighton duo of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher is also given an extra disco kick alongside producer Josh Homme. This very much delivers and cross-breed of heavy rock moving more more into head-nodding dance music than some of their earlier, far stormier material, especially on openers Trouble’s Coming and Oblivion, marrying insanely catchy overdubbed bass and guitar riffs, AC/DC style, with lyrics that are topically apocalyptic. The dance element is even brought out more with elements of electronica that echo early Daft Punk, especially on Million And One and especially Limbo. And there's even a dash more disco on Mad Visions that make you wonder what the Bee Gees might have sounded if they’d been a full-on rock band. Bookended by a dark tone. The brisk Trouble Is Coming and ending with the slow melancholy piano number All We Have Is Now. Before that Either You Want It has a very meaty guitar riff on the chorus, interspersed with sparse keyboard-based verse, as does Boilermaker, a thumping hammer of a song. Perhaps oddly though, the closing track, All We Have Is Now is a slow, very melancholy piano number, giving the doom a very non-danceable ending. Out on Warner.
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