Album Review: Plague Vendor - Bloodsweat

Hailing from Whittier, California, Plague Vendor burst onto into the picture with their 2014 debut Free To Eat, a thrilling burst of jittery, lo-fi punk.

Two years of heavy touring has beefed up their sound for the follow-up Bloodsweat without sacrificing their intensity or their dance-worthy rhythms. The songs are extensions on the previous two-minute blasts, with more ambitious structures and production that is visceral and affronting. Frontman Brendon Blaine remains a firebrand vocalist, howling like a deranged Jack White on Ox Blood and Chopper. Single ISUA rocks in perpetual motion, Credentials is a scathing diatribe and No Bounty lives up to their old voodoo-punk tag.