This Canadian outfit might be named after a Thomas Hardy novel, but they are a very long way from genteel. Their searing full length debut is a dissonant, driving, metal edged nightmare cut through with moments of dark, fragile and subtle beauty - ever changing riffs, crunching rhythms and a vocal style that ranges from entrancing, discordant harmony to visceral, desperate, spastic screaming. For fans of Converge and Cave In, and anyone else who gets off on intensity.