Goodnight Civilization was one of the prime artefacts to emerge from the weightier extremities of jazz/no-wave last year. Introducing new recruit Gabe Serbian (The Locust) to the fold, the EP marked an intensification of Zu's already bruising post-Painkiller belligerence, refocusing the trio's mutant low-slung funks beyond the asteroid fields to unchartered celestial regions, voyaging like The Thing's cybernetic scion, or a more malevolent alternative to Norwegian black jazz magi, Shining. Cortar Todo, the unit's first full-length album in five years, continues with the heavy interstellar vibes, punctuating the rapid rhythmical lurch of ‘Orbital Equilibria’ and the all-burners-firing savagery of ‘Rudra Dances Over Burning Room’ with palate-cleansing palliatives. These latter ambient transmissions, such as the unsettling ‘Serpens Cauda’, assail the avalanche of blast beats and Brötzmann-style bawl, languidly migrating over Red Planet ranges like a phantom division of John Carpenter's dead creeping insidiously across the contours of Bastard Noise's Rogue Astronaut. Elsewhere, ‘The Unseen War’ suggests the appealing spectacle of Fantômas flagellating a pair of Madness' saggy slacks, before mercifully crushing Suggs and co stealthily underfoot. This is the rancorous reach elevating Cortar Todo above the countless slug-baiters bludgeoning our battered brains with ever-blunter weapons.