After a 20 odd year hiatus, Blackpool based post-punkers The Membranes reunited in 2012 and released this concept album in 2015. It’s universes that concern the band on Dark Matter/ Dark Energy, their first album since Taylor Swift was born and one of the unexpected treasures of 2015. Inspired by a conversation with Cern scientist Joe Incandela and emotionally charged by the death of Robb’s father during recording, the band have constructed a taut, madly creative, compelling hour of music that manages to be both cerebral and pile-drivingingly uncompromising in its musical and lyrical attack.