If you’ve only heard their ridiculously wordy name, you’d probably have pegged The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die as practitioners of either emo or post-rock. Indeed, these have been the two most significant components of their sound – until now, with the six-piece intuitively fashioning something much heavier on Dreams Of Being Dust.

Fuelled by personal tragedies and savage times, this fifth album is understandably dark in tone, but never feels too austere to engage. With its prog metal guitars and knife-edge dynamics, opener Dimmed Sun churns with a different energy to previous TWIABP work. Beware The Centrist, 104 seconds of roiling hardcore that scorches like Every Time I Die, is the sort of belter that hasn’t cropped up much across their catalogue, while

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