Burnt By The Sun
The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good

THE REVIEW

Yes, Relapse has always had an eye for talent, just look at the bands they have produced: Neurosis, Today Is The Day, Unsane, and many others.
Not least these Burnt By The Sun who, after a debut mini-album focused on sounds close to death and a truly devastating full-length debut, "Soundtrack To The Personal Revolution", now offer us this "The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good", a concentration of violent and abrasive music, in which they aim to combine (successfully) technical skill with an extraordinary impact.
This album is a punch right in the face, capable of holding the listener's attention and never boring for even a moment.
It is extreme music, Post-Hardcore if you want to broadly categorize them, the same genre in which shady figures like Converge and Coalesce operate (or used to operate).
Our band's technical prowess is undeniable, further strengthened by an extraordinary drummer like Dave Witte (formerly with Human Remains, Discordance Axis, and Melt Banana), who can maintain any tempo and provide that "drive" that so many bands dream of.
The tracks are wild splinters, from the initial "Washington Tube Steak", through the accelerated Stoner of "Forlani", to the orientally tinged "Spinner Dunn".
An electronic hiss closes this small masterpiece of extreme music. Indeed, it is extreme music, because in the presence of bands like this, every categorization proves useless and misleading, as well as mortifying for the band itself.

Highly recommended for lovers of heavy musical evolutions and for those who want to hear what Hardcore will be like in the years to come...