The Glaswegian pop/rock/dance experimentalists entered the new century with yet another musical reinvention (they had drastically changed directions on almost every one of their previous five albums) with their most scabrous album yet. XTRMNTR was apparently made in a period of sobriety for the band, and the lyrics capture the shock and bald-faced outrage at the capitalist politics of people for whom the anesthesia has worn off. The leftist agitprop themes of “Kill All Hippies” and “Swastika Eyes” are matched in intensity by the music, a futuristically industrial update of P-Funk assisted by Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) and Mani (Stone Roses), that sounds like funk, punk, hip-hop and techno thrown in a blender along with broken glass. After a slew of classic manifestos to inward and outward destruction like the title track, “Accelerator” and “Pills,” the band throws in the gorgeously stark dub-soul of “Keep Your Dreams” and the hypnotic throb of “Shoot Speed/Kill Light.” It all added up to a lasting and cohesive statement – a prescient monument to noise and disgust as the digital era dawned.