The second album from this New York project, Unsigned Obsession, sounds like the work of someone who has been surrounded by noise since the age of four, when his mother let him get into the second wave of the early 1980s New York hardcore scene.

The album’s two tracks are a slow mofo of aggressive, ragged beats on stereo effects. The consensus is, of course, that Obsession is a former metal head. A few months ago I caught him in a room full of metalheads, and he was one of the first to get into the act. Now he’s back in full swing, moving through a range of metal-ish instruments, with a few straight ahead rock forms in between. His rhythm is key, for sure, but it isn’t just a rhythm. There’s a heavy, careening heaviness to the album, a shattering effect when he hits his stride, and even if it’s just a cymbal kick, the way he rolls through the chimes in “Fever” or “Stasis” is mesmerising.