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Album Review: Leftfield - Alternative Light Source

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"'Alternative Light Source'’s arrival is as blindingly unexpected as it is dazzlingly brilliant."

Breaking 16 years of anticipation for a third Leftfield album, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe electro-groans through murky opener, Bad Radio, and the relief is palpable.

Universal Everything roundhouses an Age Of Love-fuelled banger punching an oh so sweet drop at 5’27”. Fists will pump to Little Fish and Jason Williamson rhymes like the scallywag offspring of Mike Skinner and Keith Flint on Head & Shoulders. Finally, Levitate For You (allegedly intended for George Michael) gets ghostly thanks to London soulboy Ofei. Alternative Light Source’s arrival is as blindingly unexpected as it is dazzlingly brilliant.