Plaid are back with their 11th full-length, a concept album about a never-ending festival on the planet Falorx.

The story goes that Ed Handley and Andy Turner were beamed down as bodies of light to Felorx for the infinite festival Feorm to play an interstellar live set. Clearly there are parallels to be drawn here with the virtual events that cropped up across the webosphere during the lockdown period, so it feels conceptually fertile ground to play with. But Plaid stop short of engaging much further: “Feorm Falorx” is business as usual for the duo, it’s satisfying at times, but rests firmly on the laurels they’ve been on since the early 2000s.