Normally on those album adverts you see the testimonials are pretty bland.
“Really good. Sounds great, four stars”
“His/her/Their best thing since the last one”
“Buy it, I got a free copy”
When speaking about A Foul Form, ex-Black Flag supremo Henry Rollins however just goes with ‘This hyper-concentrated slightly less than 22-minute burst of meteor density somewhat punkazoidal music’, whilst Osees front man John Dwyer offers up the even more succinct description with ‘Brain stem cracking scum-punk, recorded tersely in the basement of my home.’
A tribute to the British anarcho-punk bands such as Crass and Rudimentary Peni – a blistering cover of whose Sacrifice closes procedings – and early West Coast hardcore, Dwyer and co. are in truly riotous mode, visciously/hilariously skewering the church (Frock Block) and the police (Perm Act) whilst contorting themselves into sound shapes now rarely heard.
In a different era A Foul Form might have felt a tad self indulgent, or carried some element of novelty, but to his credit Dwyer has the wisdom now to know that “Bad times make for strong music.” In this case, the current shitstorm of epic proportions certainly proves that.
You can read a full review here.
The Voice Of Unreason 
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