Confrontational and controversial, Kneecap are in a more sophisticated but less playful mood with new album

Kneecap have been inescapable over the past year. There have been charges of supporting terrorism which resulted in a UK high court case – later thrown out – battles with Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, accusations of antisemitism, which they have strongly denied, travel bans to Canada and Hungary, outrage in the US and on and on.