Review
It will take me longer to write this review than it would take you to listen to
Gridlink
's
Orphan
. Yes, this is grindcore, and it's very good.
Gridlink is from New Jersey, and the album is their second full-length. I still hesitate to call a 12 minute album a full-length, but I guess that passes in grindcore circles.
Despite the short runtime, it has as much aggression and riffage as a 40 minute thrash album. All the fat is trimmed, and each song is as short as it could possibly be. They do fall into the cliche of recording a less than 10 second "song" (thanks a lot,
Napalm Death), and it might as well not even exist, but the rest of the album is thoroughly engaging and bewildering.
