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Discipline have returned, after eight years of silence on the studio album front following Captives of the Wine-Dark Sea, with an intriguing new set of neo-prog torch songs. The sound here is mellower, gentler, but if you remember some of the material on Push & Profit, you know that doesn't mean Matthew Parmenter isn't about to slide the knife in lyrically with a typically incisive observation.

Indeed, the epic title track, bemoaning the tendency towards online radicalisation in the modern age and the way some folk talk up the virtue of "doing your own research" when that boils down to selecting a different, more volatile set of other people's claims to believe in rather than actually doing substantive investigation of your own, represents some of the most direct social commentary the band have done since Push & Profit - the albums from Unfolded Like Staircase onwards seeming to focus more on interior emotional states than the state of the world. Don't worry, though - by the time Aria closes out the album Discipline will have got you by the heart as well as the head once again. The band may not be bringing the sort of tempestuous drama that their earlier albums offered, but the brooding, contemplative tone makes it another unique release in their discography.

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