I

As the year 2020 fast approaches, there still exists a peculiar

shortage of music spiritually attuned to these treacherous times.

Fortunately Petbrick - the duo comprising Wayne Adams

(Big Lad/Death Pedals/Johnny Broke) and Iggor Cavalera

(Sepultura/Soulwax/Mixhell) - are exploring fresh lunacy

anew whereby electronic experimentation, hardcore attitude,

dystopian dread and in-the-red dementia collide and collude

to form a uniquely invigorating assault, custom fit for an

accelerated age.

This debut employs both members' past experience - Wayne in

a variety of musical guises ranging from punk to breakcore and

gabba, and Iggor in a planet-straddling metal colossus whose

questing spirit played a crucial role in the music's evolution - yet

also cheerfully renders them obsolete in a resolutely genre-free

onslaught, damaged by the endtime intensity of Ministry and

the synapse-shredding mischief of Aphex Twin yet lodged

firmly in the here and now.

Moreover, guest vocalists are also on hand to traverse anywhere

from full-throttle intensity (as with Full Of Hell's Dylan Walker

on the blistering 'Radiation Facial' or Integrity's legendary

vocal exorcist Dwid Hellion on 'Some Semblance Of A Story')

to exhilarating melodic counterpoint (Laima Leyton (Mixhell)

on 'Coming') and stream-of-consciousness lunacy from

Warmduscher's Mutado Pintado, whose splenetic tirades

on 'Gringolicker'.

Paint-stripping and deliriously potent, 'I' is more than merely

an exercise in the life-affirming flame of oppositional punk

spirit scorching all or any musical boundaries in its path - it's

an uncompromising soundtrack to a short-circuiting new era.

Yet rarely has the sound of global malfunction also been so

much fun.