Bring Me the Horizon - Amo

The Guardian 60

(Sony)

The Sheffield rockers’ sixth takes a dramatic stylistic leap. Amo isn’t as barmy a move as Spinal Tap’s spoof Jazz Odyssey, or Chris Cornell’s real-life crunk album, but the blend of rock, balladry and electronics is a long way from BMtH’s deathcore origins. Slightly mirroring Linkin Park’s electronic remap with A Thousand Suns, there are quiet piano parts, bleeping synthesisers, electro raps and even what sounds like a children’s choir.

After packing 2015’s platinum That’s the Spirit with what frontman Oli Sykes called “bangers”, the delayed album is – cue fear in the record company boardroom – one the band made for themselves. The album’s first three singles missed the Top 40 (which, granted, isn’t unusual for the mainly album-shifting Yorkshiremen), but they’re hardly uncommercial.