Moscow based power-jazz trio Brom are a group that push against musical boundaries and allow such diverse genres as noise, rock, free jazz and improvisation to leak into their continually evolving sound. On this, their eighth album, the listener is immediately dropped into the senses tingling ‘Plunge Into An Icehole’, where the group collectively and individually demonstrate their various strengths To the fore throughout are Anton Ponomarev’s stabbing horn surges and Yaroslav Kurilo’s machine-gun drumming technique, all powered still further by Dimitry Lapshin’s elegant elastic bass vibrations. As Sunstroke progresses Brom’s music begins to change shape, shifting from the modern jazz throwback that roams through ‘Tuna’ to a fully flared bout of raw noise that explodes out of ‘Urtica’. Mixing old school jazz licks with hardcore (almost grindcore in some instances) blasts of punked-out free jazz, the trio move their sound in several different directions at the same time, while still managing to keep it from totally falling apart. As The Thing’s Mats Gustafsson correctly raves in his sleevenotes, “Seriously badass!!!”.