The factory-floor post-punk quartet doubled down on their sound and literally went for broke, taking their fear and desolation and sending it out to near arena heights.
Post-punk might be an obvious language for tracing nihilism and dystopia, but now Holograms seem more interested in using their corner of the genre to grasp at something like surrender.
Forever is a mighty icebreaker; for all its lack of subtlety and flexibility, this is a mighty and robust machine, practical and one-dimensional.