“Never Let Me Go”: Why the new Placebo album is, contrary to expectations, pretty fantastic

Expectation management is the need of the hour. Not only, but especially with this band, which once in their wild years issued the slogan of wanting to become the biggest on the planet: After all, Placebo was already damn close to this goal with their second album released in 1998. Especially when you consider that the band objectively cannot exist: With a total of “only” around twelve million…