Labels: Lamb Unlimited
Review by: Alex Deller
In some ways you could question The Cutthroats 9 in the same was you could question Pigs or The Pupils. Why, after all, embark upon a side project that sounds so remarkably similar to what you do with your day job? Still, ours is not to reason why, and while this might only be the second C9 album in 14 years it’s at least a sodding great slugger of a thing. With Chris Spencer and Dave Curran in tow (along with Tony Baumeister of 16 / Æges and Will Carroll of Death Angel) it’s unsurprising that ‘Dissent’ recalls Unsane. A lot. Unsane circa ‘Visqueen’, though, which for me was a high point in a career of many high points and is therefore as sound a building block as any. It sounds maybe a touch looser and a tad more rockin’, though, and with tracks like ‘Dissension’ and ‘Induction’ admirably showcases Spencer’s primal howl “” his, after all, the perfect voice through which to vent seven raw hymns loaded with modern urban angst and shit city blues. Go on, then “” it’ll probably be a little while before the next Unsane album rolls around, after all.