About halfway through new album, We Can Rot Together, Kill Alters drops a karaoke rendition of “Toy Soldiers,” the 1989, U.S. chart-topping ballad from teen pop star Martika. This version was recorded in 1993 and it sounds like a dusty childhood memory unspooling in a now-vintage Walkman. That this intimate recollection comes after a 20 minute digital hardcore onslaught of frenetic beats and vocals that morph from chirpy to brutal is perfect. It gives the listener a few moments of respite before the pace picks up again with a cover of the Y2K trance banger “Castles in the Sky.” By the album’s conclusion, you’ll be grateful for that breather. We Can Rot Together is exhilarating. For Kill Alters’s third album, Bonnie Baxter works solo as the project’s vocalist,…

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