Ross Clelland, Journalist

As Let Them Live drily ponders ‘You and I could save the world…’, but the question seems, ‘if it’s really worth it’.

Apparently, this made JPhillis understand herself a bit better, and may well do the same for you.

Their eyes are on the prize, but not annoyingly so – although an occasional edit of one of their jammy breakdowns could be called for.

To mix it up slightly, The Sacred Burial Urn and Animate have some more angles and dissonances to them, to show they’re not entirely of another time.

Drop The Game’s echoing modern noir, and the heightened longing of What About Us manage to be both machine and flesh, and be somehow separate from the works under their individual names. This could be the future.

Persevere to No End, where Suad Khalifa’s vocal takes it all somewhere else. All a little understated for its own good, but if patient you may find something of worth.

Those expecting the perhaps more predictable big glittery bauble on an aluminium tree might be taken aback by the veteran synth-pop duo’s take on Christmas album clichés.

Sadly, they were pushed too hard, and by their third album in under three years, the talent (and Jeremy) were damaged. There are some still truly great songs here.

With Sounds Like Sunset and Massappeal on the members’ CVs, they come at you relentlessly – owing something to their suburban origins and growing up on the sludgier and more muddied edge of the Seattle sound.