Album review: Andrew Weatherall - 'A Pox On The Pioneers' (Rotters Golf Club)

Andrew Weatherall has charted a singular course through modern British music. Be it producing ‘Screamadelica’ or recently working with Fuck Buttons, he’s made 20 years of telling contributions in techno and rock without lazily repeating himself or selling out. There is no need for special pleading on behalf of a community elder here. This set of electronic rock’n’roll tracks, cultivated at some remote, exotic spot where Joy Division, Vampire Weekend and King Tubby meet, fizzes with intelligence and enthusiasm. If the next Klaxons album has such vigour, we’ll be OK. “The best review I ever had?” asks Weatherall on ‘Miss Rule’. “‘As a teenage girl, your music made me bad’”. No, NME can’t beat that.

Tony Naylor

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7 out of 10