Beautiful Seizure [CD]

Beautiful Seizure is the debut album from Chicago trio volcano!, and its an intense, exhilarating and immensely rewarding ride. What may at first sound chaotic and unplanned reveals itself on repeated listening as meticulously structured: rhythms gather, flicker, melt (down) and emerge as something different; splenetic episodes give way to passages of hymnal calm which in turn are shattered as language breaks down into strobe-like stuttering and is tugged back into line by Sam Scrantons insistent drumming; silvery shards of controlled static ride high above everything. Melodies are stretched to and beyond breaking point, Aaron Withs guitar shifts between a ragged, feverish dissonance and bright spaciousness. There are no boundaries and no indulgences, nothing here thats hackneyed or extraneous.

• Format Detail: CD Jewel Case
• Format: CD
• Genre: Indie & Alternative