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Section 01

The Records,
By Intensity

Not a ranking of quality. A ranking of pressure — how relentlessly a record refuses to give you a rest, measured by how little room it leaves between the drops. Every plate on this page is set in type by this site; no sleeve artwork is reproduced.

Ordered by pressure
03 · 2003Burn, Piano Island, Burn 2003 · Long-player · Intensity 10 of 10 Never sits down. Professional production applied to genuinely feral material, with nothing yet conceded to accessibility, and every drop a comma rather than a rest. 10 02 · 2002March on Electric Children 2002 · Five tracks · Intensity 9 of 10 The chaos starts organising itself. Rawness is not traded away here, it is directed — this is where the ruptures begin arriving on purpose and at the same moment every night. 9 05 · 2006Young Machetes 2006 · Long-player · Intensity 8 of 10 Everything they learned, played by a band that knows it is ending. Loud in bursts rather than continuously, which makes the bursts land differently. 8 01 · 2000This Adultery Is Ripe 2000 · Long-player · Intensity 8 of 10 The first noise, and audibly the sound of a band finding out how far the two-voice idea will stretch. Thinner and meaner than what followed, with the whole plan already in place. 8 04 · 2004Crimes 2004 · Long-player · Intensity 6 of 10 The turn — slower, stranger and more melodic. Not a retreat from intensity but a redistribution of it, and the one record that lets a groove stand still long enough to notice. 6

Also in The Records

Five plates · one note on the ordering

Dark cells are the drops. The score is the count of filled cells, so the meter and the numeral can never disagree.

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