Ancestral Diet loom in the shadows of Bauhaus-laced goth oddity yet hint at a pop precept or two along the lines of a Devo or mid-’80s Wire. You could throw on one of those Weird coldwave compilations and find the skeleton for a lot of these ideas, but tracks like “Uptight General” represent Biafra or Mike Anderson fronting Dead & Gone with the distortion turned off and drums excised. Oh, and Maria Minerva is manning the synth-pads. I’m getting just a flutter of folk too, particularly in cuts like “Water Burns,” along with a whiff of Religious Knives I wasn’t expecting. The Haute Magie crew would be all over this one, bet on that. Then the Dead Reptile Shrine shrieks come in and I feel like giving up. Must… find common thread; nothing to hold onto… And how! The flip might deliver even more zing-zang for your hard-earned clam, Official Waste proving to test the endurance of even the most steadfast trance-seeker. Could have done without such an emphasis on the deadpan vocals; what can you do? It’s forgivable, and not just because of the nice see-through orange wax. Call it what you will, Ancestral Diet seize the moment with an iron fist.
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