In the scant four years since Pupil Slicer dropped a fragmentation bomb into the depths of the UK underground with their explosive debut full-length Mirrors, they’ve already affected one almost complete transformation.
Where Mirrors was a barely controlled burst of grinding chaos, follow-up Blossom was a more questing exploration of melody and structure. There was still plenty of aggression and noise in the mix, but that second outing marked a major evolution. New album Fleshwork is less of a reinvention, falling somewhere between the cacophony of Mirrors and the relative accessibility of Blossom. In theory that might sound like a step backwards but in practice it means they’ve distilled everything that they’ve got right so far into one destructive yet irresistible package.
