Those looking for a dissonant blast of screamo that relies more on breezy aggression than art-punk pomp take note, Transistor Transistor may have just enough jolt to electrify you. Following a route more traditional to the so-called genre's founders than the Myspace fodder of their contemporary peers, the music found on "Erase All Name And Likeness" is not what one would expect.

From jagged punk freakouts to plummeting self-indulgent noise, the band progressively explore their borders with rabid expressionism and yet rarely sound pretentious. If anything, they sound adventurous, taking advantage of fuzzed out riffing, jarring part changes and loose instrumentation to construct something organic that lives and breathes. The self-indulgent lyrical content that seems to often deal with the struggles of being in a band only help to amplify this and give the music an incisive sense of heart.

Whether or not that is enough to get the listener past the bands reckless approach of throaty yells, brash instrumental collisions and engrossing downward spirals is anyone's guess. Let's face it, one can only see the spiritual bloodlines of bands like Ink And Dagger, Drive Like Jehu and the Blood Brothers crossed so much before all relevance is lost, But given the nature of this type of music and the influx of those in it now focusing on emo bullshit and retro nostalgia more than anything else; it's inspiring to see that there's still a band out there with enough balls to spit as much venom on their audience as they do themselves.