Album ‘Alpha Games’ out in April. Sounds a bit like Old Bloc Party™: banging guitar riff, some terrible lyrics, quite fun.
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LICK LICK LICK slurping sound LICKETY SPLIT! 
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In terms of post-Silent Alarm output I thought their album Four was pretty good for what it’s worth.
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And a tour
If it’s as good as Four I’ll eat it right up
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Decent riff and chorus. Spoken bits are very bad.
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This band meant the world to me when I was a teen. Well, them and Radiohead and The Shins and Death Cab. But I didn’t even bother with the last album.
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Nice dirty bass riff there.
Best song they’ve done for years.
Cracking ending!
Like a few others here I also thought that Four was excellent!
Not sure I can ever forgive them for the Hymn album
I’d be up for seeing them again. Saw them 6/7ish times around 2007/08.
Best thing they’ve done since that song that went “womp womp womp” and sounded like utter shit
If they haven’t got the original drummer they can FUCK OFF
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I think he might be working in Algiers. But yes, he was the star of the show.
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Their guitarist just released a track with the singer from Mew as well…
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Not bad at all. What’s with big bands circa 2004 coming back right now? Franz Ferdinand have a new single and Editors are soaking up all that lovely HGATR love…
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that franz single is dogshit tho, fair dos
It’s grown on me. Kinda thought that to start with, but I can hear a passable Sparks impression trying to break out of it.
I really like the chorus with those machine gun drums, something very appealing about it. definitely has a dynamism they didn’t have last time out. A nice surprise!
Have you all lost the plot? This is really, really bad.
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Justin Harris is wasted on this band.
Reform Menomena ffs!
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Reckon it’s because Hymns set the bar so low that even this boring, plodding rawk 
song has people getting excited
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