Bleep

DFA presents the second LP from punk-funk upstarts Guerilla Toss. Unashamed in its subversiveness - the artwork for GT Ultra is brainchild of LSD archivist Mark McCloud - this album hits you with eight killer drums-and-synth grooves that make you pine for the early-2000s NYC golden age of LCD Soundsystem, !!! et al. The first four songs are brisk, livewire shocks of electro-punk, the knotty structures and screwy vocals of which bring to mind The Slits and Le Tigre. Things slow down for the album’s second half in a manner that recalls the exhalatory b-side of Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, though tracks like ‘Dog in the Mirror’ still pack a wicked punch.