Identifying themselves as
Bordella Biledriver
and
Metatron Starsore
,
Bonnie Baxter
(
Kill Alters
) and
Matt Stephenson
Machine Girl
) combine their respective brands of fractured techno-punk to form a vicious, all-consuming beast known as
Prolaps
.
Pure Mud, Volume 7
is their first album, and it's a continuous 24-song, 48-minute montage of hypercharged beats and several varieties of urgent, aggressive vocalizations. Starting off somewhere in the vicinity of traumatic
Death Grips
jock jams, the duo cycle through juke, Hi-NRG, and slightly mellowed-out drum'n'bass, all of which frame
Baxter
's ecstatic, contorted screeches,
Stephenson
's defiant (but sometimes goofy) shout-rapping, and bratty taunts from both ("You're a piece of shit hanging out of God's crack!"). They save some of the heaviest beats for the final stretch of the album, moving from decimated booty-house ("Fight [or Flight] Song") to ragga-jungle ("Energetic Whole") and breakcore ("Channel Massive"), all taken to another realm by
's otherworldly caterwauling. As exciting and rule-breaking as anything either artist has ever done,
Pure Mud
is a chaotic panic-rave triumph. ~ Paul Simpson