Have you not listened to U.K. agitators Future of The Left because two-thirds of them were in the untouchable McClusky, and you figured that since nothing could ever be that good again, then why bother? Then you, sir or madam, are an idiot, because FoTL’s gritty, gleefully destructive industro-punk mayhem picks up right where McClusky left off doing pretty much the same thing. When not simultaneously thrashing both optimism and the very idea of the rock opera via “The Hope That House Built” or getting so punchily, angularly rhythmic that it actually hurts your muscles on “You Need Satan More Than He Needs You,” sophomore effort Travels careens and sparks like a runaway grinding wheel, obliterating political correctness and preconceived notions of aggressive music in a meaty red spray. Get desensitized, and laugh at the horror.

- Colin Kincaid