‘So paint me black and blue, until I disappear, parade your passion, a romance dressed in violence, is this what love is?’ (Loveless)

Blind Girls hail from Australia’s Gold Coast but any images of sun kissed beaches will instantly dissipate the moment the needle drops as this their third album, An Exit Exists, is a lesson in unrelenting savagery.  The band meld together an utterly fierce fusion of screamo and chaotic hardcore influences – conjure, perhaps, a conflation of Botch and You And I – each track honed into a cathartic two-minute eruption.  This economy speaks persuasively to the quality of song writing – there may be no room for self-indulgence but each song writhes with invention and seethes with emotional intensity.

Harsh guitars and discordantly serpentine melodies are underpinned by a furious, blast beat flirting rhythm section, while the feral vocals quite literally drip with a tortured anguish as they delve into darkly personal themes of guilt, rejection, and betrayal.  Memorable moments are myriad from the dissonant metallic eruptions of Loveless to the hauntingly beautiful close to Blemished Memory, and from the squalling fury of Make Me Nothing to the ominous melancholy of Lilac.