Something of an enigma to this writer previously, FULC are an angry quartet currently based in Leeds, but recording at Cornwall's infamous Sawmills studio, previously the domain of the likes of Muse and Supergrass.
Certainly the latter's presence is absent here, although Muse's industrial energy is a touchstone, along with (sorry) the jagged, plaid-clad overload of Nirvana circa, say, "Floyd The Barber."
Vocally, though, Duane Walker is another pit of vipers altogether, recalling lost voices like Leatherface's Frankie Stubbs during the throat-lacerating howl of "Evolution" and Alice in Chains' late Layne Staley on the horrifying cancer commentary "Backroom Surgery."
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Accordingly, the EP works only intermittently, and certainly the doomy acoustic track "Broken" is pretty forgettable. Nonetheless, FULC are energetic, committed and at their best ("Backroom Surgery")really do mean business.
A little less of the nu-metal and the bog-standard grunge-isms and we could be onto something good here.
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