I was on a three hour drive to Valencia this morning to drop a work colleague off at the airport. Stuck on Dark Matters. Sounds like the Stranglers, he said.
Turns out he was a casual fan back in the day, seen them a couple of times live in the last decade or so, but never got round to checking out the recent albums.
Anyway he loved the album on the first two listens, has since messaged me to say he's bought the CD and a digital copy.
Also played Suite XVI, he liked it but not as much as Dark Matters.
Tried Hugh's terrific Monster album on him, unfortunately he wasn't having it.
Ah well, two out of three ain't bad.