The order of tracks on an album can significantly alter the impression it gives, and having pitched ‘Glass Jar’ at the opening of this fifth Gang Gang album the band may have inadvertently overshadowed everything that follows it. As one of 2011’s best singles, ‘Glass Jar’, in all its 11-minute-plus glory towers over the rest of this record. Having said that, it’s another interesting and involving album for these sonic experimentalists, who really take a magpie-like approach to writing, using tribal rhythms, dancehall bass and even inducting Alexis from Hot Chip for space funk jam ‘Romance Layers’. The album opens with the words “it’s everything time” – and they really mean it.
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