Delta

Pitchfork 5.8/10 Having shed the beardy affect and folksy shuffle, the band could now slip mostly unnoticed between Imagine Dragons and twenty one pilots, but their newly palatable sound could really use more quirks.

NME 3/5 Marcus and co. reinvent themselves once more, turning in a wildly eclectic record that veers from lush orchestral arrangements to indie R&B

Evening Standard 4/5 All the biggest album releases this week 

Rolling Stone 2/5 Experimental new album takes the band’s sound to gloomy extremes

DIY 2/5 They’re back flogging another set of empty epics.

The Independent 3/5 It’s all very dramatic, both thematically and sonically, with virtually every track following the same pattern: quiet, bit louder, LOUD

The Observer 2/5 (Gentlemen of the Road/Island)

The Guardian 2/5 The band were once adept at uniting disparate influences, but it’s a knack they’ve lost

Spectrum Culture 60% Rectifies the dissonance between intimate songwriting and high-end programming and production.

The Telegraph 5/5 Visiting producer Paul Epworth at Church Studios this year, I was struck by the variety of instruments scattered around: