Shalt - 7/10

What is it with February? This month sees a lot of willfully distorted club-not-club music landing in the inbox.

SHALT lines up alongside Eaves as a newcomer dropping heavy shock 'n' roll, all rib-rattling black hole bass and mercilessly constructed beats. Of this four-tracker, two are particularly striking: the title track unfurls into stuttering techno that's lined with crackles of electricity and 'Unconfined' is unashamedly thunderous noisy grime. But, as discussed in our review of Eaves' 'Gorilla' elsewhere on the site, we're starting to hear a lot of this kind of thing come through.

And, with Bloom twisting grime into mangled shapes in 2012, and Emptyset and Roly Porter crafting noise and industrial into epic narratives since the turn of the decade, we're hoping some of the new blood inject fresh ideas. Else we're going to be left with the club music equivalent of dubstep's sexless dungeon sound.

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