The record starts with a kick drum, before a looped bass enters, slowly lulling the listener into serenity before BANG! Guitars explode all across the microphone, electrical debris falling beneath the weight of towering riffs. Opening number “Loungeside” exposes a rock band as they mean to go on: without mercy, without manners, without restraint. Some of the guitar arpeggios resurrect the spirits of shoegazers Ride for a hurrah stuffed with reverb-oriented gusto.
The Fierce and the Dead have traditionally pivoted between stoner and psychedelic hooks, suffused with sultry grooves undulating beneath the murky words. “The 1234” maintains the momentum, battering drums angrily pulverising across the speakers, recalling Tony McCarroll’s…

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