A decade since we last heard from Bristol’s trip-hop trio and the hiatus seems to have paid dividends. Their aptly named ‘Third’ album is a surprise top 10 smash in America, while the lead single, ‘Machine Gun’, is an equally triumphant return. Available as a highly collectible single-sided etched vinyl twelve, this moody lo-fi reverberating offering finds Beth Gibbons’ haunting delivery fighting a rearguard backbeat loaded with spy-movie suspense and a darkly buzzing electroclash undercarriage of distorted crashing snares and crunching techno paranoia.
3 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Lewis Dene