Hellfire - Black Midi (2022)

Ideated from: some new releases I’ve been playing heavily

Picture your own favorite flavor of apocalypse. It doesn’t have to be violent, but you know that it’s all over and you’re just watching the tape run out, so you might as well make it interesting.

I don’t know if this is conveying what I’m hearing, but just listen and maybe you’ll see what I mean.

This thing is all over the place; Brutal and pretty and pleasant and dissonant. An extremely talented and inventive band push right up against the boundaries of what they can do.

Tracks I Liked

Sugar / Tzu - Fast-paced math-rock with a gorgeous melody line

Welcome To Hell - It’s like having a stroke that you can dance to.

The Race Is About To Begin - a cyborg Gershwin showtune with a bunch of metal and wiring bolted onto it, then played through a meatgrinder.