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This debut album by young Chicago trio Volcano! is an intense, exhilarating and immensely rewarding ride comparable to Deerhoof, Black Dice, and at times The Pixies and Sonic Youth. What may at first sound chaotic and unplanned reveals itself on repeated listening as meticulously structured: rhythms gather, flicker, melt(down) and emerge as something different; splenetic episodes give way to passages of hymnal calm which in turn are shattered as language breaks down into strobe-like stuttering and is tugged back into line by Sam Scranton's insistent drumming.