Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

If you haven't yet discovered this energetic three-piece you're in for a pleasant surprise. Hard to categorise this one! Mix up heavy guitar, rap vocals and plenty of attitude and you get something between rock and rap core! Other bands have tried it (Pax 217, Silage) but none have hit the mark quite this powerfully! Rapper Rudy Nielson delivers a stream of rhymes that communicate while his partners lay down the heaviosity! This is their second album (the first was a little ropey, having been recorded after the band had been together three weeks!) One highlight on the album is a guest appearance by Pigeon John from LA Symphony, a rap outfit that haven't yet broken here in the UK (but they're truly brilliant and they're going to be huge!) He's featured on "All Around America". Elsewhere my faves are the crushing riffing hardcore "Mongrel" and the funkier title cut. Overall the album is packed with diversity without selling out from their groovy rock and rap roots.

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