Thank You - Terrible Two

Terrible two is a post-punk-rock aural challenge. ‘Empty Legs’ opens with rolling drums and whistles, before ushering in chanting bathed in battling and screeching guitar. ‘Embryo Imbroglio’ introduces some low fret scraping to mesmeric drumming and jittery guitar loops. It has a Japanese post-rock feel to its make up, but is less grandiose that, say, Mono. ‘Terrible Two’ is a mute, high-end of keyboard dirge to close the album, and follows ‘Pregnant Friends’, which opens with twee percussion as favoured by Tilly & The Wall before freaking out into a Lightening Bolt-like breakdown of drum and noises.

Organs pulse sporadically throughout the album tying it together, and the assorted beats and loops that feature are oddly discordant yet pleasing. This is not an album to love, rather one to savour at opportune moments, and is perhaps ideal for scaring off your ex-wife when she comes to pick up the kids for the weekend.