Never Let Me Go
Even as they become elder statesmen of alt-rock, there remains a youthful ebullience to Placebo’s songs. Perhaps that’s because singer and guitarist Brian Molko and bassist Stefan Olsdal make music rooted in the heady rush of the here and now, where the emotions are raw, the spirit unfiltered. That’s how it goes on this gripping eighth album, which tackles themes of climate change, mortality, and technology while journeying through a broad soundscape that takes in expansive goth rock, orchestral pop, and synth-tinged grooves. Their defiant anthems seem melancholic and hopeful at the same time, the sound of a band savoring life in the present.
The British veterans' first album in almost a decade isn't quite the ‘Metal Machine Music’ they suggest, but it is their best since ‘Meds’
Placebo finally return after almost a decade with long-awaited eighth album, Never Let Me Go.
Placebo return with their first album in nine years, while Aldous Harding plays a host of eccentric characters on her fourth record
After nearly a decade between studio full-lengths, Placebo returned with one of the strongest efforts in their catalog, 2022's excellent Never Let Me Go.
Written after a gruelling greatest hits tour, Never Let Me Go sees Placebo making music purely for themselves, with some captivating results.
It’s been a long, long time since we’ve had a new record from gender fluid rockers Placebo, and on their eighth album, Never Let Me Go, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal have stuck close to their well-trodden territory of teenage angst, seething anger, drugged up paranoia, and cinematic melodrama. Having been made to wait for so long, the worry amongst their fans, no matter how diehard, is that the pair have lost their edge in all that time.
Ellis Heasley reviews the long-awaited eighth album from UK alt rock trailblazers Placebo. Read the review of Never Let Me Go here!
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