The Verve had a troubled late Nineties. A legal wrangle with the Rolling Stones and group squabbles let to a split in 1998 after breakthrough album Urban Hymns was released. Nothing on Forth has the immediacy of Bittersweet Symphony, instead it revels in guitar noise (Sit And Wonder, Noise Epic) and the very downbeat (Judas, Numbness). Great moments outweigh the dud ones – just.

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