Murder License

Following up the widespread acclaim of their recent album, Xinlisupreme return with a seven-track mini-album of blistering pace and vicious, devastating power. A vital / viral blast of corrosive, red raw, bleeding black heart guts and mess and pure fucking energy scrawl, that's part nihilism and part holding up a cracked mirror to a fucked and collapsing insane world, the EP is titled 'Murder License' and its cover art features an American flag chopped up on a background of smeared blood. If anything, 'Murder License' is an increasingly focused and coherent release than before. Rhythms are weightier and more up-front. Every track is intensely driven, the whole bursting out at the listener with barely a pause between eruptions. Xinlisupreme may evoke or draw on earlier influences (MBV, J&MC, Merzbow, Suicide, Pere Ubu) yet there's an honesty and undoubted individuality that sets the band poles apart from the vast majority of their peers - a scorched earth acceleration that exposes the current vogue of retro-fit punk for the vacuous fashion preening it is.