The third studio album from this English alt-rock outfit. For this album, the band recruited American hip-hop and electronica producer Dan the Automator, who is best known for his work on the first Gorillaz album. Two years in the making, the album is the sound of a band at the peak of their powers. A 52-minute mashup of sky-scraping melodies, electro-punk riffs, Morricone-esque symphonics, mariachi stomps and psych-pop lullabies, it is both a stadium sized declaration of intent and a bar-raising benchmark for rock music in 2009.