Labels: Lechuza
Review by: Alex Deller
This was one of those review pile malingerers, and to be honest I was (a) not really expecting much and (b) somewhat surprised that Oli Sauncers didn’t put his arm up for it. I was all primed for some PAES, to give it a few pityfuck spins, type some drab words and then relegate it to some distant corner of the vinyl graveyard before forgetting it ever existed. More fool me, because it’s actually pretty sweet: tense, taut, desperate stuff that sounds like it’s been informed by Drive Like Jehu and Orchid in roughly equal measure. These turbulent, dynamic screamy vibes are then peppered with some neat dropaway vocal parts that recall the Khayembii Communique or Hassan I Sabbah (you know, where it all goes quiet but the singer keeps bawling…) and the occasional rock thrust that works really well rather than some lame duck failed sass a la Panthers. All in all: really good, and it gets extra plus points for the genre-appropriate lyric-booklet-bound-by-thread and having printed it on what looks to be an inkjet printer from 1998. Nice work, people.