Pitchfork

In the Marvel comic-book universe, Melter was a villain who used some type of raygun to, y'know, melt stuff. "Melter", off of noisily psychedelic California rockers Clipd Beaks' latest album Hoarse Lords, certainly could be about a weapon. These former Minnesotans have found only a new frontier of dank, thick gloom in the Golden State, and that choking darkness presses in on "Melter" until a relatively coherent, groove-oriented introduction shatters into a mess of fractured noise that recalls This Heat. Like labelmates HEALTH, Clipd Beaks wreak havoc with thundering percussion, chaotic waves of guitars, and lo-fi howls that sound like vocalist Nic Barbeln is about to slam his head into a wall. Make sure to point your melting device at the drywall first, man.

MP3:> Clipd Beaks: "Melter"
[from Hoarse Lords; out now on Lovepump United]