A Certain Ratio: It All Comes Down to This review – punk-funk stalwarts on a euphoric high

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The 13th album from the Manchester pioneers blends familiarity with no shortage of new ideas, spanning introspection to jubilanceBack when they were Joy Division’s Factory Records label mates, ACR’s pioneering punk-funk barely troubled the charts, but it has subsequently influenced artists from Happy Mondays to LCD Soundsystem. Being rediscovered by successive younger generations has helped propel a career Indian summer: their recent music has channeled their early adventurous