Last heard from Chefkirk in 2012 with his We Must Leave The Warren CDR, which was mostly a sub-bass droner without much in the way of spriggly fizzy eventitude, but he’s back to his good old abrasive and itchy self with Kaiju Manifestos (EH?28), where he’s scratching up a roughly-textured mess with Andrew Quitter, both cats licking the butter with their rough tongues. Quitter is an electronic carpenter-stroke-fisherman who’s been plying his trade in Eugene Oregon since about 1998, has about eight aliases and also adds his strength to at least as many bands, and his solo album covers indicate his engagement with bleak scenery, outer-space travel, wild animals – and his dislike of Portland, Oregon. Matter of fact Kaiju Manifestos was recorded at Slithis Studios in Eugene, perhaps both fellows turning their disaffection for people and places into palpable sound-art for the audience to savour. Most of this negative excitement is reserved for the two opening tracks – both ‘Spatial Surface’ and ‘Gesundheit’ are explosions of passionate proportions, and would have fit right into the murderous Mego agenda of the late 1990s – highly suitable for disinfecting and then reinfecting most kitchen surfaces with their germ-laden assault. Thereafter the album does slow down to a more considered pace, and the two circuit-folders rub up against each other like two lonely beasts by the fire, emitting deep murmurs and regularised purrs. The final track is another delicious mess, ugly pulsations and nonsensical emissions spitting forth from crazy, untamed devices, interrupted with aggressive spits from white noise, static, and all sorts of non-musical swill. Cineastes who are expert in the field of Toho productions will spot references to Smog Monster and other gigantic beasts in the track titles here. Quite good, sometimes energetic, broken electronic noise. From June 2015.