BRITISH SEA POWER

Do You Like Rock Music? is the album on which British Sea Power’s long game comes to a compelling conclusion. Good is arrayed against evil; rock music against non-rock music. Subject matter includes floods on Canvey Island, economic migration, Slavia Prague FC, heartache and the Apocalypse – plus the Great Skua and the wrestler born Shirley Crabtree and known as Big Daddy. The Great Skua is a big piratical sea bird. Here it provides the title for a gorgeous sweep of instrumental music – one strand in an album that moves from the six-minute rock fantasia of Lights Out For Darker Skies to the beauteous alt-rock pastoral-soul of No Need To Cry. More than ever, writing and singing is equally divided between brothers Yan and Hamilton.

Estimated despatch 14-20 days after ordering.