A decade on from their last studio album, and life is clearly no less tortuous for the Bristol trio. Beth Gibbons remains temperamentally bereft, still "disappointed and sore", still fretting about "the poison in my heart"; and Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley are as reluctant as ever to cosy up to listeners' most basic demands of charm and engagement.
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