PRE – “Third Album” – [Skin Graft Records]

Noise noise noise punk from the UK released on Skin Graft Records, recorded by Steve Albini and mastered by Weasel Walter. What more could you ask for? Two bassists, guitar, drums and shrieker Akiko Matsuura on vocals. This chick must have the lung capacity of a large sea mammal, because her relentless wails populate the entirety of this brief album, which totals up at 23 minutes. Banshee screams are coupled with the band’s fuzz drenched, repetitive, angular abrasion, driving and saturating the sound with adrenaline soaked dissonance. Pre violates your eardrums, trashes your insides and leaves behind a trail of sweat and blood. Clear FCC on #1, besides that, vocals are indecipherable. – Surfer Rosa