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Review: Whether you were a 1990s teen riddled with angst looking for release, or just coming to Placebo for the first time now (where have you been?), Never Let Me Go is all the proof you need that the sound of half-broken and dysfunctional youth can translate into adult sounds. On this latest, Brian Molko and co are neither trapped in perennial adolescence desperately looking to be put out of their misery, nor hellbent on attempting to reinvent themselves.

In short, we might have already known to take this troupe very seriously, but it never does any harm to reemphasise the point, with tracks like 'Try Better Next Time' encapsulating the reasons why their early work resonated so much, and outings such as 'Chemtrails' and 'Went Missing' making it clear that, within their scope, there are still plenty of new ideas happening.