Photo by Tod Seelie

The album cycle rolling out the return of Parts & Labor has been an extensive one, starting out with a four-part saga that threads together the listen alongside other new noise materials, but if “Seamripper” happens to be the final offering from the seminal Brooklyn DIY experimental rock band’s first new album in 15 years — this time double-armed with two drummers with the returning Chris Weingarten back in the fold — then they’re putting down many mighty fists before it happens.

New mazes in soundmaking have always been a modus operandi for P&L, though here, you could easily make an argument that this is the band at their heaviest and sludgiest of alien metal influence. Drudging up an absolutely filthy riff and synth burn while hammering omen into oblivion by drums fueled by the echoes doom, it’s like you’re hearing the sounds of the space-time continuum’s fabric coming apart. Have we just discovered a way out of this hellscape? This one tears a new one into it, for sure…

Parts & Labor’s Set of All Sets will be released July 10th on Ernest Jenning Record Co.