by Jack Rabid, The Big TakeoverThis is a massive sounding, beautiful noise album, which finds Junius even tighter, heavier, blasting to the stratosphere, and massaging every post-shoegaze fuzz-roar you've held in your head since Ride went all Small Faces. Dana Filloon's drums are clubbing; Joel Munguia's bass is Swervedriver-hard; and Mike Repasch-Nieves and Joseph E. Martinez's double-teamed guitars as bold and dense as 1984 Concert Cure and 1993 Chrome Catherine Wheel, perhaps these guys' biggest precedent with the same propensity to Pink Floyd\u002FTalk Talk ambient noise cool-outs after the freak-outs. (Although Martinez's vocals are more American emo--good emo, that is). Of contemporary U.S. bands, only the last EP by Fresno's incredible Sleepover Disaster reaches this echelon of hefty brawn, effected-guitars concentration, and howling dog vocals, and the songs themselves are up to the maelstrom. Play this once -- you won't get it out of your head.