Balf Quarry

The Balf Quarry may have paved the streets of Hartford, but the Markers are coating the streets of your ears...with vomit, beautiful vomit! The sound is singularly creepy, as if made for some lost horror film. *Balf Quarry's dark beauty is further twisted with the assistance of producer Scott Colburn and assistant axe-wielder Ben Chasny.

Continuing in the vein of 2007's BOSS, Magik Markers here channel their noisy leanings into simpler songs without sacrificing the band's fiery energy.

Magik Markers intriguingly titled new album veers between scuzzy dirges, trashy punk and bleak mood pieces. James Dalrymple reviews.

UK-based music magazine bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.