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A year on, Smith and co switched their focus to the future. Their synth and string-layered album, set over the course of one night, is littered with references to imagined worlds, from Blade Runner to George Orwell's 1984 (plus a spoken-word interlude narrated by Oscar-winner Riz Ahmed), and was broadly well received by the critics.