Polymer (Double LP)

Forging ever bolder and emotive paths through electronic music, Plaid return with their tenth studio album.

The innovative duo Ed Handley and Andy Turner have been expanding the realm of electronic music as Plaid since they diverged from The Black Dog in the early 90s.

The album's 13 tracks cover energetic bangers, bright melodic visceral rhythms and hypnotic textures to create perhaps their most cohesive, direct album to date.

Polymer finds the duo of Ed Handley and Andy Turner showing off all of their tricks. Crafted under the manifesto Polyphony, Pollution and Politics, Polymer manages to synthesise this trio of concerns into a set of stirring electronic compositions.

The Polyphony that the group lean on here spawns some gorgeous moments. As they have done time and again throughout their career, Plaid draw a human warmth from their machines on Polymer.