WHEN METALLIC POST-HARDCORE upstarts Ithaca released The Language Of Injury in 2019, nobody quite expected the London mob to explode in the way they did. A critically acclaimed album that led to some high-profile festival appearances and shows supporting the likes of Anaal Nathrakh and Bleeding Through, the band’s growing stature means anticipation has been high for a follow-up. Has the pressure of delivering a second album caused Ithaca to crack? Has it bollocks.
‘It’s not a job, it’s a service, and I getscreams vocalist Djamila Azzouz on opening track a chugging riff behind her as the song thunders into where the combination of screamed and clean vocals will rip a hole straight through the senses, but then stitch them up as it goes.
