BERROCAL, JAC / FENECH, DAVID / EPPLAY, - Psychometric Testing By (Sealed) (7")

Jac Berrocal, David Fenech and Vincent Epplay return to Blackest Ever Black with their first record since 2015's Antigravity LP.The title track is a louche but volatile art-rock panther-stalk.a cracked jazz ode on street hassle pitched somewhere between Vince Taylor-in-exile and PiL's Metal Box.Berrocal on vocals, a rakish, slurring stream-of-consciousness that becomes a yowl of despair; drums loose and dub-delayed; Fenech's jagged guitar phrasing set to stun, and Epplay's electronics set to flay. 'Ice Exposure' situates Bef's mournful, muted trumpet in the sort of eerie deep-freeze ambience that characterised Antigravity, and lienor en Aout' coaxes a gloomy poetry from affectless cold war radio broadcasts.