Intoxicatingly brutal, the self-titled debut record from Bristol’s Giant Swan is an unglamourous melee of muck and industrial techno. Straddling the line between club music and punk rock, Giant Swan’s music is confrontational and intense, revelling in the uninhibited joys of physicality and freakdom, stripping avant-garde techno down to its most primal elements. Each sound on Giant Swan lands a blow directly to the gut, a twisted melange of industrial noise, thunderous drums, buzzsaw basslines and blistering rhythmic bursts. Consolidating an excellent run of EPs and 12 inches, the duo use their first full-length to delve into their serrated aesthetic, providing a terrifying glimpse into the psyche of two musicians who have completely unshackled themselves from the world. With backgrounds in hardcore and experimental rock, Giant Swan prove themselves unbeholden to conventional electronic structures, demonstrating a fearsome mastery of dynamics, melody and atmosphere. Feral, uncompromising and suffused with an unrelenting sense of unease, Giant Swan condense every sweaty, subterranean night spent glassy-eyed and borderline-deafened in a pitch black rave into the sonic assaults of their debut LP.