Media Condition:  Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)

Black Midi’s new album Hellfire is an absolute bundle of agitated and twisted songs. Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of Cavalcade, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut, Schlagenheim. It is their most thematically cohesive and intentional album yet. It is instantly black midi but adds more elements of Zappa and showtunes. Whereas the stories of Cavalcade were told in third person, Hellfire is presented in first-person and tells the tales of morally suspect characters. There are direct dramatic monologues, flamboyantly appealing to our degraded sense of right and wrong. You’re never quite sure whether to laugh at or be horrified. 

Tracklist
1 Hellfire
2 Sugar/Tzu
3 Eat Men Eat
4 Welcome to Hell
5 Still
6 The Race Is About to Begin
7 Dangerous Liasons
8 The Defence
9 27 Questions