The 16th studio album from English drone rock explorers epitomizes just how outside of linear reality the band chooses to stay. The seven songs that make up were recorded at two very different sessions in 2013, thought to be lost forever due to a hard drive failure, miraculously recovered sometime in the years that followed, and then completed by leader and mainstay as the 2020s began before being properly released in 2024. A decade? A day? Meaningless designations of time to and his cohort, whose primal, space-out rock songs on this album could have been conjured up at any point in the group's run that dates back to the late '80s. The first four tracks were recorded in Berlin at the 's studio by engineer , who sits in on synth. These songs range from hypnotic and motorik psychedelia on the -meets- feedback-fest "(In The) Hidden Fields," sinister monotone on the black-hole noir of "Dead Head Lights," and gentle reflection on the subdued "We Carry Along." The remainder of the album was tracked (also in 2013) in Leeds with early producer . These three songs are cut from a more similar cloth, with "Get Out of Me," "What You Love," and "There Is No Shore" all lurching and noisy midtempo dirges, rich with the kind of glazed-over guitar and synthesizer fuzz textures have built their empire on. Though salvaged from the edge of nonexistence, feels just as naturally a piece of ' specific bedazzled brand of rock as their other work. It taps into the band's specific continuum of noise and beauty, offering new modifications to the formula while folding back in on itself infinitely. ~ Fred Thomas