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Explores the dark, suburban-gothic shades always loitering beneath their surface glimmer.
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An album that’s among the year’s best but will take years to unravel.
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Every track on this superb album is a winner, each draped in quiet glamour.
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The Fall have broken out of time, and exist slightly away from the rest of us.
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Their gaseous, elusive vision of what drum’n’bass could be is intriguing.
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No troughs, no peaks, no dilemmas or drama; all you have is mediocrity.
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Banhart finally sounds content with himself and his own sound.
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Fat blobs of colour splatting against your temple and leaking into your eardrums.
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Often elegant, heartfelt, poised and intriguing.