Recorded over three weeks in Spain with a predominance of string arrangements and the occasional assistance of a 100-member Catalan choir, Love Kraft promises to be less overtly political than 2003's Phantom Power. "The world is so ridiculously dark at the moment," Frontman Gruff Rhys explains, "when you don’t know where to start politically it's sometimes easier to become inward looking or to enter the world of the imagination."