KNIFE CRAZY- Delicious Delicious Science

Given access to your sharpest utensils, New York's Knife Crazy sound like they could live up to their name, and do it bloody gloriously too. 'Delicious Delicious Science' is a weird, fierce and fiery mix of punk, rock and loose art-damaged indie. Which means one minute the band are reciting tales of woe over the sort of frenzy The Stooges kick-started decades back and the next they're messing about with math guitar, awkward silences and dancefloor bludgeon. 'Known By Reputation' fucks about with the ghosts of Nirvana and Fugazi, 'An Homage to Ants…' pushes splintered yelps into electronic strum like razorblades in an apple and the buzzing repetition, drum cracks, alien noises and hypnotic vocals of 'Let's Be Scientists' would really mess your head up if the preceding nine tunes hadn't done it already. So the separate ingredients might not sound like much, and apart from free-reign musical madness there really is no central sound gelling this together, but still the Crazies have cut and paste their condition into something dynamic, dramatic, unique, and delicious even. Just keep them away from the cutlery.