Surgery

Surgery sees the band return with a more dynamic, almost accessible pop sound and its twelve songs are without doubt their most ambitious and infectious to date. An otherworldly, subversive soul record it has a ghostly grace which mixes soothing sci-fi lullabies such as 'Gypsy Nightmare' and the gorgeous doo-wop of 'Angels In Heaven, Angels in Hell'' with their trademark characteristic rohypnol rock-outs. There's the intensity of 'Suicide', the black humoured nod to illness on 'The Tangent' ("I got so sick/ the nurses they’ve all quit!"), while the album's title track 'It's Just Like Surgery’ is the sound of The Sex Pistols playing My Bloody Valentine with lacerating lyrics to match ("You operate/ Like no one else I know/ And your scalpel cuts/ Deep clean through my heart and my mind!"). From opener and new single 'Come Save Us', the album is a shiver-down-the-spine onslaught which sounds like nothing else around right now.