THE CVLT - MIDNIGHT CVLT

The good: Sometimes just going for the most belligerent deliverance of bass is the right way to go, and that's kind of what MIDNIGHT CVLT embraces in his semi-eponymous "THE CVLT" EP. Released on acclaimed neurofunk label Eatbrain, a level of expectation is already set for the record, and yet it slaps that expectation right across the face. In terms of production value, "THE CVLT" is absolutely face-slamming and brain-melting and any other adjective you would associate (and expect) in contemporary neurofunk, and MIDNIGHT CVLT does a fantastic job of compacting as much pure heat as he could into this. Whilst I prefer his solo tracks over the two collab tracks, there's some damn good stuff here.

The bad: The cohesiveness. Mainly, the project branding let me down a lot, because from that cover art and project titling, I was expecting "THE CVLT" to have a consistent atmosphere at the very least, but MIDNIGHT CVLT is apparantely having none of that with energetic yet seemingly unrelated sampling and not many tracks appealing to the dark vibe of the cover art other than, in part, "Collision".