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Current Value 'Rethink' (Othercide)
Recent smashers on Critical, Cyberfunk and Terminal confirm arch-neuro pugilist Current Value’s importance to a wide variety of tastemakers. Knuckledusting tearout venom is rarely this precise: from a cut-up vipers nest of threshing snares on the first drop, a sci-fi tech scudder suddenly emerges halfway through, its messier elements pared down via a womping synth electrode that adds shape and melody. It’s not long before the scratchy tentacles return, however, tripping and misstepping all the while. Frenetic, yet powerfully marshalled, black-out funk.
8/10
