This is absolutely incendiary – there’s no other way to describe it. Tearing through four tracks in something like seven minutes, Crunk demolish absolutely everything in their path. Their sound is straight-up and played with fearsome conviction, ragged and sounding like it might spontaneously combust while at the same time locked down so tight that there’s nowhere for the fearful to run. To my mind they hark back to classics like Bastard and Death Side while simultaneously touching base with the more modern likes of Punch or Slant – a potent cocktail by anyone’s standard, and all the more impressive considering this is ‘just’ a demo.
