“Beyond The Darkened Library” is one of the album’s more subdued moments, yet the unnerving energy that Landowner posses is in full force, bleeping and blooping in a way we’d swear was computer driven, yet all praise is due to Dan Shaw, Josh Owsley (bass), Elliot Hughes (guitar), Jeff Gilmartin (guitar), and Josh Daniel (drums).

Holyoke, MA’s Landowner are never short on words. With the band’s excellent sophomore album, Consultant, out now via Born Yesterday Records (Dummy, Stuck, Red Tunic) their scathing takedown of systemic racism via political agendas, the upper class, and disparities of resources is all delivered with an appropriate agitation.

The quintet's album, Blatant, is just that - there's about as much subtlety here as a hammer to the skull. Self described as "weak hardcore," Dan Shaw and company have built themselves a deviant post-punk record thick with wit and abrasive tonality, skewering everything from the far-right to environmental disasters.