Bleep

After their recent album on Thrill Jockey, Swedish band The Skull Defekts lands on Powell’s and Jaime William’s Diagonal imprint with an EP of creaking psychedelic rock, expanding the label’s musical horizon. . ‘Saturday Mourning’ builds up dizzying dissonance over relentless drumming, and the sliding vocals of ‘Mammal Combination’ are on the brink. With Diagonal’s focus on gritty techno, Street Metal initially stands out from its club oriented catalogue, yet The Skull Defekts’ sound is so rhythmic and pulsing that it conveys the dance floor energy. This underlying notion of techno shines through on ‘Holy Drums Dub’.