Pre Language

Disappears have created a record that can appease fans happy with how they sounded anyway and those that are searching for something new.

This album feels more like a series of genre exercises, a place in which they occasionally work up a palpable tension, but never enough to make this more than an adequate diversion from the resources they're obviously sourcing.

What sets Pre-Language apart from those two previous releases is that go-for-the-jugular attitude, as if the band members are cocking their eyes upwards while playing their instruments with self-serving irony.

They were able to bottle the pure raw power of the city on Pre Language, and now everyone else around the world can get a taste.