MIRTAZAPINE (named after a powerful antidepressant) slams in on a raft of metallic guitars. The 102 seconds of PSYCHOSIS unfold with outrageously cracked swagger. WORMGIRL and MONTANA explore Mimi’s appetite for collaboration, with LA’s self-styled Queen Of The Damned Raven Gray adding impish energy to the former, while Ho99o9 supremo Yeti Bones crops up amidst a storm of fast-spat German language on the latter.
It’s THIS IS DOOM TRAP’s glimmering back-end that pushes the record over into greatness, though. Mimi’s music has always luxuriated in filth and fury, but SILENT TEARS, DISGUSTED and FINAL DESTINATION DEATH WITHOUT SATISFACTION polish that corrupted core to something resembling poppy accessibility, as dangerously seductive as a kiss from a Cenobite. And staggering closer INSOMNIAC dares tip over into climactic euphoria, rolling the credits perhaps not with resolution, but with something like acceptance.
Any glimmer of light on the horizon shouldn’t be mistaken for the sunrise, mind. It’s that of a new alt. superstar still just starting to explode.
Verdict: 4/5
For fans of: Ho99o9, Nine Inch Nails, Scarlxrd
THIS IS DOOM TRAP is released on 27 September via Silent Cult