To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere

Nine albums in, the Cali rockers get political with a blistering dispatch from a paranoid world. Drone warfare (on high-concept onslaught “Death From Above”), Edward Snowden (the pleasingly thrashy “Whistleblower”), and Capitol Hill profiteers (exhilarating war cry “Blood on the Sand”) all jostle for room on a bustling record that bubbles over with ideas and Riley Breckenridge’s distinctive thunderous drumming. Thankfully, you don’t need to be a foreign policy expert to savour the monumental thrill of riffy centerpiece “Black Honey”.