Melt Yourself Down

Pitchfork 6.4/10 Melt Yourself Down rises from the ashes of Acoustic Ladyland, an incendiary ensemble led by British saxophonist Pete Wareham that played free-improv jazz as if it were hard-charging rock music. The band's self-titled debut is direct and infectious, jostling with harmonic and rhythmic allusions to Nubia, the Middle East, Latin America.

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The Skinny 4/5 The second track on pyretic jazz-punk collective Melt Yourself Down’s eponymous debut is titled Release!, but in truth the whole shebang is one great big release; an exotic whirlwind spinning out shrieking sax riffs, shamanic shouts and dizzying percussion, presenting only the rarest of opportunities to escape the dervish and gather bearings.

The Telegraph 4/5 This fierce, self-titled debut album from Melt Yourself Down sounds fresh but feels like the soundtrack to an old memory, finds Helen Brown.