Show Me the Body’s audacity to push hardcore beyond its bounds and bleed into other scenes across their releases has been objectively novel, but Trouble the Water is where their ambitions with a no fucks attitude collects into one reservoir. The third full-length effort from the Brooklyn trio puts all their bare knuckles and teeth gritting out, too, with frontperson Julian Castwan Pratt stepping forth from the murky, grimed atmospheres of previous efforts as a cataclysmic punk vocalist whose barks fuel confrontation onto the hard-scraping societal callouts he rips to the forefront. The temperament of the listen is resoundingly balanced in spite of Pratt unleashing bedlam regardless, knotting itself in militant post-punk and radiating industrial livewires that oft burst when the tension can’t take any more pressure. There may be no dam to keep Show Me the Body all-consuming fire inside one vessel, but Trouble the Water is the closest thing to an encapsulation of that.

Highlights: “Radiator”, “Boils Up”, “WW4″

Show Me the Body’s Trouble the Water is available now Loma Vista Recordings.

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