Gatefold vinyl! The follow-up to their acclaimed 2015 debut, 'Dying', it was recorded by Dominic Mitchison and mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road in London. It's louder and more abrasive than their debut, but also a real progression. It sounds huge and adds a genuinely innovative and confrontational edge. "There were discussions about experimenting with electronics, but the idea soon petered out when we realised we still wanted to experiment with guitars," reveals singer and guitarist Joe Hatt. As a result tracks such as 'End Waltz' have a relentlessly pounding, almost techno structure, in contrast to the kinetosis-inducing dirge of 'Dissolve. Elsewhere the almost restrained (by Spectres' standards) white noise and wordplay of 'A Fish Called Wanda' and the sprawling 'Colour Me Out' are counterbalanced by brutal assaults such as 'Neck' and 'Welcoming The Flowers'. "On this album we became even less interested in actually playing guitar," explains Hatt, "which meant that we got more into experimenting with the sounds we could get out of them when brutalising them and letting the feedback do the talking.
