More relentless hammering from No Statik, this time in the shape of a brief seven-track LP. If you heard the 7″ on Iron Lung then this ‘un shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, the band continuing to dole out immense blasts of fast-as-fuck hardcore fury that reference the likes of Negative Approach while bringing things (kinda) up to date by dosing them with the latterday hostility of bands like .Nema, Ottawa or Stations. For my money things don’t get much better than opening track ‘When We Wake’ thanks to its neat dynamic twists, but the other lung-shredding belters can’t really be sniffed at either. It closes on the same odd note as that aforementioned 7″ (i.e. with an extended version of the more experimental ‘We All Die In The End’) which is almost a relief after the initial battering you’ve been through, and while cool in itself it does lend things a slightly lopsided feel. A good, brutal record, though, and I’ll definitely be interested to see whether they end up threading this weirder edge through their more straight-up moments.
