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After stunning the mainstream pop machine into a state of huffy, new school e-disbelief by beating out , , and for the 2011 Album of the year Grammy, seemed poised for a -style international coup, but the , despite its stadium-ready sonic grandiosity, was far too homespun and idiosyncratic to infect the masses in the same way as the or . , the collective's much anticipated fourth long-player and first double-album, moves the group even further from pop culture sanctification with a seismic 13-track set that guts the building but leaves the roof intact. Going big was never going to be a problem, especially for a band so well versed in the art of anthem husbandry, and they're still capable of shaking the rafters, as evidenced by the cool and circuitous, -forged, -assisted title cut, the lush, -led "It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)," and the impossibly dense and meaty "We Exist." ~ James Christopher Monger