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Rating: The contamination of Post-Rock and New-Wave towards indie, started by Cafarella, Cohen, and Moyer when they were still calling themselves El Guapo, reaches its outcome in this album signed with a new name and a new drummer.
The first song, "Born Into The World", is the best: a hypnotic guitar with a Latin American flavor is supported by a club base and an adrenaline-pumping bass. The influences of Afro and Latin music are very clear in "Everybody Sings", where the group makes a skillful and massive use of the djembes. However, with the third track, "Defcon", begins a succession of rhythms and melodies that clearly nod to the late-century New Wave, and which had already been prominent in the last two albums by El Guapo ("Super/System" and "Fake French"), nothing new then. An exception, however, is the dreamy "Six Cities", with romantic choirs and an ever-rich bass that evolve on a nice "claps" base. A pleasant surprise is then "Devour Delight", placed at the close of the album, a courageous exploration into the musical tradition headed by the carmina burana...
"Always, Never, Again" is at times exhilarating and mostly repetitive, which in any case I don't think will disappoint fans of electronic indie (and of "El Guapo").
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