Scary Busey's three-song volley into the pandemic age, "Tower Peeler," is named for its ear-peeling second track. Featuring a creeping guitar riff bolstered by thundering rhythms and shrieked lead vocals, with a spoken word bit struggling to climb through the muck toward the end, it's very much in line with what this band does well.
But the last track, "Suicide Note," is the EP's heart and soul, perhaps the finest thing this four-piece has recorded. It's a plunge into deep despair; a queasy, eight-minute dirge that swings from righteous anger to deeply unsettling horror (I've listened to it three times so far, and each time I come away with this sense of dread in my stomach). The increased sense of melody and compositional flow on display here, not to mention atmosphere, points the way for more sludgy brilliance to come.
That leaves the first track, less than two minutes of screeching, crawling noise, a drill through the ears and straight to the brain.
A perfect soundtrack for the pandemic, and a more-than-worthy follow-up to last year's self-titled full-length.
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