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Review: "Murky Tech Death" was how one critic thought best to describe Blood Incantation. It's not hard to hear what they meant on this 2015 EP from the death metal outfit. It's riff-y but in a mathematical and angular kind of way, with nods to futurism also evident in the lyrical themes that look skywards, beyond the stratosphere, and into the great unknown which humankind still can barely reach due to the limitations of our own technological forward march.

There are moments here so complex the art of listening itself becomes something of an exact science - the lead guitar crescendos of 'Obfuscating The Linear Threshold' for example. Or the rhythmic propulsion of 'Hovering Lifeless'. The result is a masterclass of heavy, doom-y noise that packs musicality and drama into all four tracks.

Review: If you're completely new to The Pretty Reckless then let's start with some introductions, even if there's a good chance the only reason you're reading this is because the band are anything but new to you. Formed a year or so before their debut album, 2010's Light Me Up, the New York outfit make no secret of their passion for grunge, alt rock, punk and heavy guitar business, with subsequent record titles like Going To Hell and Death By Rock & Roll only reiterating that point.

The latter, their most recent and very well received at that, provides the jumping off point for Other Worlds, an LP that may not be the most accurate introduction to the band in question. Essentially a set of tracks from said preceding outing, reworked as acoustics, or just re-arranged, along with a few covers (David Bowie's 'Quicksand', for example), it's purposefully not how they would normally do things, and yet hues of outfits like Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam are unmistakable. So perhaps not that different after all, then.