We Were Exploding Anyway is a wonderfully amorphous fusion of instrumental, percussion-heavy electronica with incessantly progressive patterns which sees delicately-layered splinters of sound slotted firmly into place only to be achingly withdrawn without warning. What 65daysofstatic have created here is a beautiful piece of art with bold, colour-soaked flourishes and flowing rhythmic structures, yet still characterised by razor-sharp lines and perfect finishes. Before I get all Antiques Roadshow on you, let me explain where we are in the band’s life-cycle.Having once been a collective known for remixing mainstream pop acts, 65daysofstatic have come a long way. Although they mostly have remained a band in the shadows, this album represents the Sheffield band’s fourth full-length. It continues their move away from the heavier, guitar-driven sound, that characterised their first couple of albums, and towards a complex, more compartmentalised approach where a multitude of instruments roam to create the whole. Their last album, The Destruction Of Small Ideas, for instance, was specifically written with this more expansive approach in mind and, although We Were Exploding Anyway is keen to retain that progression, it also sees them seemingly desperate to rid themselves of their characterless post-rock moniker as they delve well and truly into the more rhythmic qualities of dance music.Euphoria, hedonism, intoxication - this lush album promises all those things and more. It’s truly a breathless connection to the band's past musical loves; a frightening change of direction that the band appear to have full control over. The rave pulse and gently-prodded keys that run rings around ‘Mountainhead’, the industrial splashes that are sprinkled upon the phased loops of ‘Crash Tactics’, - all reinvented kickers to good times past. Tracks like ‘Dance Dance Dance’ and ‘Come To Me’ (featuring a surprise vocal guestspot from The Cure's Robert Smith) prove that they still have the rock chops to gnash us with and ‘Piano Fights’ and the voluptuous ‘Debutante’ are their attempts to woo us with subtlety, as they effortlessly build up multiple layers to create vast shifting sands of sound.It's an album that flows superbly and, although there is nothing to match the emotional monster 'Primer', from their last album, there isn't one track that you'd replace here for any other no more than you'd combine a Van Gogh with a Rembrandt. The Pendulum-esque piledriver 'Go Complex' is probably the highlight but the climactic, hammer-down intoxication of 'Tiger Girl' runs it close for impact and brings the whole party to a glorious, dizzying conclusion. There is no doubt that We Were Exploding Anyway is going to infiltrate their live shows like a welcome friend so make sure you bring your dancing shoes.