The Scots’ hearty, bare-chested rock travels in surprising directions on their seventh album. The keening anthems remain—“Wolves of Winter”, “On a Bang” and “In the Name of the Wee Man” are bespoke stadium rousers—but the band’s confident explorations into emotive folk (“Medicine”), freak-out funk (“Flammable”), and twinkly country (“Small Wishes”) showcase a special band’s enduring capacity to intrigue.
- 2014
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