Crash Worship – !Pyru!

What I assume to be the 'A' side - "Pyru" - opens with fucked-up wet porn movie Funk before gyrating itself into a soporific, drug-exploded attempt at splicing tribal drumming with extreme Hippie fare. The resultant monster is more an uneasy symbiosis than a healthy hybrid. The trancy feel of the track pulls against the alienating distortion so you feel both absorbed into it's sound and at the same rime rejected rather painfully. The 'B' side seems to have two tracks - "Pyru" - very different from the flip with the Tribalism coming through even more obviously, combining with unrelenting loop tapes to create an odd, ever intensifying dance piece. the final track, which I think is called "Sodium Di Hexaride Dub" returns more to the 'A' side than anything - a Junk-Culture, Eastern Industrial noise wash over a gut-busting intense drum barriage which again seems to intensify as it progresses. Probably closer to SPLINTERED's "Pigmeat" era combined with TEST DEPT circa "Gododdin" than to, say, MUSLIMGAUZE.

Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.