In more than a decade on the planet this singular Salford-birthed entity have
married intrepid musical exploration with psychic fearlessness – not to
mention a tendency to leave any tag or bracket one attempts to place on them
utterly redundant. In a sense, the latest adventure bearing this title evolved
both from the lengthy European tour that the band embarked upon in the wake of
their stripped-down and paint-stripping 2017 opus Just Say No The Psycho
Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death
Machine. Recording in Supernova studio in Eindhoven with Bob De Wit, the band
found themselves free not only to lay down two tumultuous tracks that they had
been honing and hammering into shape on the road – the pulverising
fifteen-minute opener Donovans Daughters and the bracingly brutal
Uncle Frank Says Turn It Down – but to sculpt more abstract material,
utilising dubbed-out repetition, furious riff-driven
rancour, bleak soundscapes and experimentation to create an invigorating tableau
of dystopian dread and unflinching intensity. Wherever Gnod go in 2018 and
beyond, expect reality to be reinvented anew, whatever the consequences.
