Scabrous solar-plexus piercing splinters of post-punk death dancefloor nihilism that on the surface may tick current trendy boxes such as The Fall and P.I.L. but cleaves a stalactite through any such impossibly puerile preconceptions by being an album of annihilation anthems such as ‘How The East Was Lost’, ‘Throwing The Fight’ and the brilliantly named ‘It’s Exactly Four Seconds To The Door, I’ll Give You Two’ that, in taking Steve Albini’s bowel-scraping-with-rusty-razorwire Big Black guitar sound to its illogical extremes of genetic brittle bone disease and muscle-wasting mind-blowing majesty, vocals resembling the Swell Maps strangling each other out of sheer panic at their first day trip out of their Middle England homeland, provide the same shock to the system and instinctive surge to react that Slayer and Alec Empire summon up. ‘Led Eye’, ‘Mutiny Disease’ and ‘The Sex-Drive Thieves’ have Big Black and Human League mingling frantically in a deviant disco with The Fall and The Cure, spitting into drinks at the bar. Influences are somewhat futile though as they transcend them into some fucked up future of mutant micro-robots and miscreant micropchips.
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- Stu Gibson