#2824 Holy Fuck - Bird Brains

Holy Fuck started to hit a sweet spot on 2016's Congrats, shedding a lot of their noisiest baggage, concentrating energy into monsterous golden grooves, all lean muscle and bristling texture, with occasional sags into sleepy ambience. Now even those lulls are culled, the EP format affording deadly focus on lasersawing the dancefloor into carefully-measured chunks. These are unstoppable buzzing pulses, all the noise put to precise purpose, bringing the kind of energy that makes you stop and check if an act's on tour (they're not :( :( :( 4/5