The Locust / Jenny Piccolo – Split 5″ (1996)

May 13, 2022

I opened this review to start writing before the 5″ started, and it will no doubt end before I am finished. You gotta love 5″ records. They are ultimately pointless, but are so perfect – never has a format been more fitting to an individual genre, in this case grindcore. I’m not sure if this was recorded before or after the stuff on the MITB split, but this, whilst a lo-fi affair, is much more like the Locust of later years, with intense electronic fuckery coursing through the grind assault.

I ordered this split years ago from a mail order but it never showed up. So its today then, that I finally get to check out a micro blast from Jenny Piccolo, who play in a classic hardcore/powerviolence kind of style. Sharp riffs underpin these microblasts of carnage, intersected with bizarre noise/guitar effects.