Scramblers＜限定盤＞

Moving to Luke Youngers Alter label, Ren Schofields fifth album as Container is the first to be titled something other than LP. Other than that, it isnt a major departure than his previous few records, but it is a bit punchier, delivering more of a jolt of electricity and replicating the energy of his live shows a bit more. The rhythms here are a bit tighter and more complex, managing to fuse grime and industrial on tracks like Nozzle and the battering piledriver Mottle. Even when the beats are a bit more direct, like on Trench, theres still a truckload of scuzzy effects piled on top, all coming together to form mind-spinning patterns. Its an absolute joy to hear Schofield come up with a sporadic, throbbing pattern and manage to make an obtuse yet danceable rhythm out of it, as on the truly absurd Queaser. The final track, Duster, is one of the heaviest and most imposing cuts on the album, yet somehow it seems appropriate that it ends with a simple, abrupt bwip!, as if he simply killed the power. ~ Paul Simpson