Serving as the flagship release for the newly launched Lambgoat Records, the label founded by the definitive hardcore website of the same name; Lye By Mistake are no doubt offering themselves up to the message board firing squad with this, their full-length debut for the label. For not only do they have their own mark to establish, but they also serve as the cornerstone of which their label itself will be built upon.

Thankfully things seem to be off to a good start on both accounts as Lye By Mistake are not your average band by any means. The ludicrously titled "Arrangements For Fulminating Vective" finds a group able to musically go anywhere - though more often than not that anywhere sounds like a violent collision between the likes of the Dillinger Escape Plan and the works of John Zorn.

Instrumentally the album is all over the place, there are large traces of prog, avant garde fusion, funk, samba and just about everything else you can imagine. But while the technical ability is there, each song also has a meaty shred heavy-backbone which sees harshly screamed vocals and apocalyptic drumming spazzing out behind it.

By the use of ethnic instrumentation, or at least electronically simulated ethnic instrumentation, the prolonged forays into these unconventional styles are actually quite charming. Furthering their inclusion is the way they are implemented, often being paired up with some savage grinding tech core that makes for an odd couple which tends to strengthen each others faults.

It is this unconventional disposition that actually sets the band apart. Despite all their eccentricities though, there's little dispute when it comes to the brutish heaviness they repeatedly display, as it easily matches that of their many peers. The only real gripe here is that the band seem too ambitious to violently bounce back and forth between contrasting styles rather than fully fleshing them out.

Even so, with the convergence of a broad reach of styles, all of which are played faithfully and intertwined, this outfit rise above the faceless metalcore masses and deliver a brainy experimental listen not likely to be mistaken for anyone else.