New album: Explosive but also expressive innovation by the returning veteran Canadian post-rockers, with a title that explicitly references the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, but on a larger scale expresses an apocalyptic vision through some extraordinary, prog-rock experimental instrumentals
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Album review: The Montreal post-rockers return with their seventh and among their best to date, expressing the all the doom and the defiance of recent times, using field recordings, atmospheric orchestration, drone sounds, swingtime crescendos, and rich layers towers of distorted clarion sound
Read moreNew albums: The Killers, Marc Almond, Prophets of Rage, Omni, The Horrors, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Wedding Present, plus Björk
A bountiful selection this week brings you everything from rap-metal righteous anger to soulful 60s torch songs, stadium rock to innovative indie, plus a sneak preview of Björk's new single - her own category completely
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