After a brief but soporific intro that sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack to Interstellar, Spector’s long-awaited third full-length release Now or Whenever launches into ‘Catch You On The Way Back In’, the single that heralded the part-time outfit’s triumphant return in June last year. 

This is quintessential Spector for fans of their frenetic debut, Enjoy It While It Lasts, which turns ten in August this year, and is swiftly followed by the catchy ‘Do You Wanna Drive’. “It’s funny how time stutters / It’s funny how time flies”, sings Fred Macpherson on an album that’s for the most part concerned with just that. Where have the last two years gone? What do you say when there’s nothing to say? Well, in guitarist Jed Cullen’s words: “We start talking and writing about the past and the future as if to escape from this paradoxically mundane/extreme present.” 

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