��This new vinyl reissue of Floor's self-titled album comes just as we're awaiting the brand new album from the band, Oblation, their first in over a decade. When it originally came out on No Idea, Floor's eponymous swan-song ended up being the Miami-based band's finest hour, even though they disbanded almost immediately after it's release. It has always been my favorite of all of Floor's records, a masterpiece of ultra-heavy sludge-pop that at the time sounded like nothing else out there, a perfect marriage of pulverizing downtuned riffage and soaring melodic hooks, stirred into something truly stunning by the sweet layered vocal harmonies that are draped all over this thirteen song disc.

�� Opening with the droning power and lush melodic hook of "Scimitar", the album begins it's slow, saccharine onslaught, bulldozing over the listener with these compact blasts of rumbling tectonic pop. The band's infamous "bomb string" is employed at key moments, the massive bone-rattling sound of the severely detuned guitar strings going off like a mortar detonation at the height of some of the album's most infectious hooks. The band cited the likes of Godflesh, Melvins and My Bloody Valentine as key influences on their sound when this album came out, but what Floor created here ends up sounding totally unique, songs like "Downed Star", "Figured Out" and "Iron Girl" resembling some impossibly high-gravity version of The Beach Boys, welded to some of the heaviest, most downtuned sludge ever, with the thunderous low-frequency pummel of songs like "Ein (Below And Beyond)" and "Triangle Song" resulting in some of the heaviest music you'll ever hear. It's a masterwork of grinding, punishing heaviness coated in the residue of endless heartache and focused into a blazing blast of triumphant hooks.

�� This 2014 reissue of Floor comes in gatefold packaging, and also includes a bonus 7" EP that features the songs "Bombs To Abaddon", "Xian" and "Stalker", all recorded around the same period; some of you may have heard the dark, aggressive sludge-assault of "Bombs" off of the split 7" with Dove that C-Blast co-released way back when, while the other two songs were apparently never released previous to this EP, delivering a surprisingly furious blast of fast-paced hardcore followed by a droning instrumental exercise in skull-crushing monotony. Also comes with a digital download code.