Creators of songs with cryptic, one word titles that'll pound yer puny little ass like nobody's business, this San Francisco four-piece follow last year's truly outstanding Clean Your Room with 13 edgy, inspired, jagged-edged tunes that rank as some of the best agit-power-punk-pop noize to be released all year.
An exciting morph of PIL's snotty whine, Husker Du's furious pop pulse and Big Black's barely-in-control guitar chaos and sparse, elliptical sound; songs such as "Istanbul," "Manclub," "Seconal," "Butchery" and "Snowman" are a head-spinning, mid-air collision between lead vocalist Tom Barnes' navel-intensive, semi-autistic world observations and lead guitarist Damon Wood's furious, eyes-closed, over-caffeinated string mangling.
