An excellent split 12" of European post-metal, this platter offers up two heavy songs from Flatlands, whose lumbering, chugging catchy riffs are offset with

noisy flourishes, all of which remind me of both Justin Broadrick's melodic dirges in Jesu and later Godflesh, and the more metallic Dinosaur Jr. stuff met

with Cult Of Luna/Isis/Neurosis style heaviness. Stripped down and raw, with the focus on catchy, crushing riffs, Flatlands also go for a more abrasive vocal

assault with agonized deathcore screams. Sunshine Republic's side features a single long song of subdued, contemplative drone rock/post rock that falls near

House Of Low Culture and Phase 3 Earth, a lonely repetitious reverb heavy guitar melody that builds in volume as the dummer gradually appears,

bashing the hell out of his drums in a leviathan march across empty rural fields and down abandoned village streets. Eventually that sad guitar melody

disappears in a cloud of howling psychedelic feedback

and monstrously downtuned bass guitar and saurian drum pounding destruction that begins to resemble Skullflower's IIIrd Gatekeeper with faint

deathcore roaring way off in the distance. Pressed on grey 180 gramme vinyl and presented in a minimalist sleeve with cool layered paper/acetate artwork.