Kinski

Down Below It’s Chaos

[4/5]

If the Seattle post-rock band Kinski flirted with ambient atmospherics on 2003’s Airs Above Your Station and fulfilled their Kraut-rock fix on 2005’s Alpine StatIc, consider their new album the return of the rock. Sporting shrieking feedback and grooves so deep one could rationally fear getting stuck in them, Down Below It’s Chaos is heavier than 95 percent of today’s metalcore releases without even trying to be. That said, for every shoegazing noise jam like “Boy, Was I Mad!” there’s a lush, delay-driven interlude such as “Plan, Steal, Drive” (although that song, too, eventually explodes into a jam of Black Sabbath-esque proportions). Hell, even the nine-minute-plus closer “Silent Biker Type” doesn’t contain an ounce of self-indulgence-and if you’ve got any illicit substances on hand, we’re betting it sounds downright religious. (SUB POP) Jonah Bayer