FOALS: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part Two (Transgressive)

INSTALMENT two of the Oxford quartet’s latest album frames the band’s rockier side, but feels untidy and overbearing. Its scattergun approach sees cinematic instrumentals rub shoulders with chaotic stomps like The Runner and the bluesy Like Lightning. Only Dreaming Of harks back to the funkier Foals of old. Part One gained a well-merited Mercury nod, but this is an anticlimax.