Interesting one here from Triac: a neatly packaged gatefold 7inch that includes a CD and bleak little booklet of words and images substituting a standard lyric sheet. The first four tracks fairly blast past in a clatter of drum chaos and barely-in-control slashes of treble-heavy guitar, which, combined with the vocalist’s snotty jibber-jabber lend the band’s take on Scum / World Downfal grind a more hardcore-inflected sound than many of their immediate peers. ‘In The Blue Room’ and the standout ‘Isolation Tank: Day Six’ see the mania tempered by some slower, feedback-punctured clunks reminiscent of early Godflesh while the drawn-out bass traipse and sludgy chord progressions of closer ‘My First Blasphemy’ hint at darker climes entirely. All in all, it’s as enjoyably left-of-centre as you’d expect from a label like Reptilian and a more that effective appetite-whetter for the pending full-length.
