On their 18th album, we hear The Stranglers as we will never hear them again. In the advanced stages of recording Dark Matters, keyboardist Dave Greenfield succumbed to COVID-19 in a British hospital. Bass player and vocalist Jean-Jacques Burnel is the last original member of the Guildford based band. Almost as if they had foreseen it, Dark Matters is a rock-solid album that successfully harks back
… to the sinister post-punk of albums like Black And White (1978) and The Raven (1979). Dark melodic music in which Greenfield's meandering synth and organ play a very recognizable role. Dark Matters shows that The Stranglers may have emerged in the punk era, but they were always completely unique. (MR)more
