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PLACEBO Black Market Music (Deleted UK 12-track CD featuring the third album from the US alternative rockers. Includes the singles Taste In Men Special K and Slave To The Wage which begins with a sample from Pavements Texas Never Whispers. Includes a picture sleeve lyric booklet CDFLOORX13) Amazon.co.uk Forget the crumpled post-coital comedown ofWithout You I’m Nothing. Placebo’s third album,Black Market Music, sees the London trio with a predilection for debauched hedonism back at the top of their form. Molko has wised up, realised that there’s more to life than hedonism–and no, it doesn’t mean he should have to give up all his fun. He’s discovered limitations (see the harder, groove-based single “Taste In Men” and the truly chilling “Commercial For Levi” where he states “I understand the fascination/I’ve even been there one or twice” before going on to add “please don’t die”). One indication of Placebo’s re-birth is the storming collaboration with psychedelic US rapper Justin Warfield “Spite & Malice” which rocks harder than a thousand “Brick Shithouse”s. There are songs like the profane New Order-esque “Special K” with its female pop harmonies, and meaty bass courtesy of supreme queen Stefan, where Placebo sound even more spiteful and resonant than before. The more contemplative “Passive/Aggressive” brings the pace down a little, before the dance-orientated “Black-Eyed” ends everything soaring into the stratosphere once more.Black Market Music could well turn out to be Placebo’s finest moment.–Jerry Thackray