Imploders follow up their ripping EP with a full-length that’s boiling over with the same sort of snarling stuff. Early 80s hc classicism rules the roost here: fast, bratty and dripping with contempt for modern society. Everything sounds like nails being rattled in a mason jar: a sort of sharp, agitated jangle that causes an immediate tightness across the shoulders. The vocals, meanwhile, are a hollered jeer, occasionally bordering on the tuneful and demanding a sweaty singalong. For all their hewing to the Circle Jerks / Angry Samoans template, though, a very modern smartness has also been tumbled in. Take ‘Piss It All Away’ for example: you can bounce off the walls to it, sure, but there’s also something atypical and off about it as well. Ditto the way feedback is wielded, momentarily, in a near-musical way as ‘Deteriorating World’ runs its short, ragged course. A fantastic effort, all told.
