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2016, 2×12″ LP, XL Recordings.
A quarter century old now, yet these art-rock giants and eternal malcontents seem as restless in their muse and motion as ever – still chronicling an increasingly complicated and strenuous age yet doing it with finesse, grace and innovation. The urgent, invigorating strains of single ‘Burn the Witch’ were no anomaly, and ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ shows them shaking off the more insular tendencies of their last opus ‘King Of Limbs’ to engage and electrify in a way that they haven’t truly managed for years – radiant, celestial ambience shares space here with impressive ire and emotional engagement, with these peerless experimentalists delivering a record that transcends both their own work and the vast majority of the musical landscape they survey. – Juno
