For their third album, Brighton's itchy electronic groove machine opted to record in California with the producer Thom Monahan, best known for his work with folk-rockers like Vetiver and Devendra Banhart.
But it's still northern Europe that dominates their music, from the undulating Krautrock tick-tock tones of the title-track and the galumphing lope of the Depeche Mode-style "16 Shades of Black & Blue" to the dramatic grooves of "Taiwanese Boots" and "Pills", both of which resemble the kinds of themes Can created for 1970s Euro-thrillers, full of voguish continental sophistication and sinister implication. The way that David Best speak-sings in murmured intimacies adds to this mood, as if we're party to dangerous secrets – which often turn out to be simple assemblages of idiom and cliche, though no less ominous for that.
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