flu.ID - iots

Call it mathcore, call it technical metal, it really doesn’t matter as the torrent of coruscating guitar grunts and wails whizz around your dome at lightspeed. Any critical faculties left clinging to the cliff’s edge will have their fingers stamped upon within seconds of the opening track ‘Ordinary Different’. The non-stop attack can be trying though, even for the most ardent noise fan, so when flu.ID turn it down and get weird(er), mixing crying baby samples with electronic pulses (‘Enthymen’) it feels oddly soothing. But their natural fit is mischievous battery and that’s when they’re at their best. Collecting the band’s rare, 10” singles, ‘iots’ is hard going when swallowed whole, but in small doses this is ultra-fierce. David McLaughlin

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DOWNLOAD: ‘ORDINARY DIFFERENT’, ‘STRATEGY FIRST’.
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Issue #51 - I Told You This Would Be A Good Issue

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