PLACEBO Never Let Me Go CD (2022)

Twenty-five years into their run and Placebo still sound like they're recording in the wreckage of something. Never Let Me Go is the sound of a band that has outlasted every genre that tried to claim them, and they're furious about it in the best possible way.

Released in 2022, this is Placebo at their most expansive and most bleak, which is saying something for a band whose entire discography reads like a gothic fever dream. Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal push the dark alternative and post-punk textures further here, with production that sits somewhere between industrial atmosphere and classic alt-rock gut-punch. If you came in through Without You I'm Nothing or Black Market Music, this lands exactly where you'd want it to. If you're new, it's as good a place as any to fall in.

CD, full length album, 2022. UK alternative gothic rock.

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