This Will Become Clear Later, Like The French Revolution by UNCULTIVATES is brilliantly stupid, and that’s entirely the point. Built from the technical foundations of mathcore but delivered with the blunt force of hardcore, it feels like a group of highly skilled musicians deliberately trying to make something as loud and obnoxious as possible.

The riffs are twisted and dissonant, clearly drawing from the lineage of The Dillinger Escape Plan, but there’s no interest in showing off through complex structures or constant time signature shifts. Instead, these strange ideas are hammered into repeatable forms that hit with immediate impact, giving the record a unique sense of bounce. The record is grotesque and abrasive throughout, but there’s swagger and groove too. Great Minds Think Of Mike plays with expectation and twists the riff just enough to feel off-kilter without losing momentum, feeling chaotic on the surface but actually tightly controlled underneath, with every weird rhythmic decision serving the larger goal of getting bodies moving. The record is a knowingly ridiculous exercise in heaviness with an over-the-top, beer-soaked energy of general lawlessness, and while it might present itself as dumb, there’s a clear intelligence in how it balances complexity with immediacy. Across its runtime you’re shouted at, pummelled, and dragged through breakdown after breakdown, all with a sense of humour and fun. In a scene crowded with bands chasing either technical extremity or raw aggression, UNCULTIVATES manage to carve out an inventive and unpretentious space that sits somewhere in between, resulting in a delightful racket executed with real flair. Fun chaos that never dissappears up its own arse, this is either going to be completely overwhelming or exactly your kind of thing, and if you do click with it there’s a huge amount to come back to. Strange, intricate grooves presented as a gloriously dumb riot.