Showing markedly more musical muscle than on 2001โ€™s marvellous Scary World Theory album, here Lali Puna continue to astound the open-minded listener with their melodic rapture and their lyrical scythe.

Singer Valerie Trebeljahr must be one of the most sensuous female vocalists since My Bloody Valentineโ€™s Bilinda Butcher; witness the opening, very MBV-ish title track where she breathes: โ€œWeโ€™ve been done before and now we try to forge ourselves.โ€ Drums are far more to the fore?hear the amazing propulsion of โ€œB-Movieโ€ and the cataclysmic โ€œAlienation.โ€

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Throughout they continue to nibble against the suffocation of capitalism (โ€œYouโ€™ve been told/Leave your dignity at homeโ€ from โ€œGrin And Bearโ€), and by the final โ€œCrawling By Numbersโ€ they are truly fixing to die (โ€œCanโ€™t you see six feet underground?โ€). Another truly wondrous record.