Arc

"The album name inadvertently nods to a biblical story about salvation; there's anything but on Arc, where Higgs repeatedly envisages apocalyptic situations both as payback for human irresponsibility, and out of a surprisingly binary desire to stand at the end of time and weigh up whether we did more bad than good. The beasts that populate his Bosch-like landscape are privileged guilt, apathy, generational despair, the inability to communicate, foiled aspiration, and broken homes, though they're rendered with less crash, bang, and wallop than you might expect".

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"Arc lacks coherence; it's the sound of a band working out who they want to be. Hopefully that'll be the band that combines both modes seamlessly, as they do on Kemosabe and Armourland, a sleek piece of robo-pop that links social breakdown with the emotional barriers we all put up".

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