If I was to choose one word to describe Kleptone’s fourth album in the ‘quadtriptych’ it would be angry. Not a misplaced or random anger, but a righteous one about the state of the world at the moment. Starting with hypnotic Alan Watts quotes and strange spoken word about reality, truth and cake, it seems the cake is a lie? Now that might put some people off, that this would involve preaching or be all at one level, but no, this is a masterclass on how to keep a flow of emotion going for a long album without it getting too much. A range of emotions are there from reflection to confusion as you go through the album, like some musical Kübler-Ross – and you think it’s gone to the most extreme, then it takes it to 11 when No Parlez kicks in with Run the Jewels meeting heavy rock riffs and all bets are then off. This is my favourite part, it’s very cathartic. The album just keeps topping itself like that, cycling around through emotions and getting more. Thus it’s actually my favourite of the four albums, because I think with the way things are going, we need music that is the answer to the question ‘when are you going to get angry?’ or indeed as quoted on a previous Kleptones album, ‘you need to get mad’. Rock, metal, drum and bass, psych, fuzz garage guitar, angry raps and spoken word talking about the state of society and the world, it’s all there. An earlier reflective moment is Red River, a cover by Chrissie Hynde of River Man by Nick Drake, mixed with dark dubby samba beats and psychedelic rock. Indeed it starts with quotes from Apocalypse Now and feels like a nod back to LO and it’s Stygian winding rivers but refactored into a heart of darkness. And similarly topical and reflective about climate change is Ascending Pattern with it’s quotes from MLK and spoken word laying out the truth about fighting for what is right ‘I said to him – why are you doing all this. He said “I don’t know, we aint gonna win, polar ice caps gonna melt, the tropical forests are going to go away, take away our oxygen, I can prove it on my computer'”.. The ambient beginning goes into a drum and bass track with Julian Cope talking about motherships and stone circles – alienation and alien nations? Talking about alienation – Life Assurance‘s spoken word over a garage motorik backing about taking creative risks and artistic confusion – confusion as well as anger seems to be a common theme on this album – into the thrash metal of Long Night. Ween becomes Motorhead? It’s hard to separate tracks on this album, so we have Ante Meridien with its Slayer style guitars (indeed it might be Slayer, I’m not up on them) and Opus 3 vocals.