Some of the bands involved in the nu core explosion of recent years have been content to throw in a few lurching Korn-esque riffs and leave it at that. Tallah certainly have an unhealthy reverence for Bakersfield’s OG scene-leaders that bleeds through the seven-string shenanigans and vocal histrionics. They remain nu metal revivalists at heart, but over the course of their first two albums they’ve increasingly let their own sense of manic invention shine through – a process that continues here.
Following a chanted intro, opener proper What We Know is a standard downtuned lurch. Augmented is more of the same, but with more of the sort of elements that System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian once described in his own band as ‘quacky’: the boings and sproings that sound like Saturday morning cartoons playing through the apocalypse.
