Mats Gustaffsson and Tony Lugo land on Superpang with a brilliantly angular bogswoggle of free-skronk horn splatter, algorithmic noise and metallic, percussive corrosion. Ain’t like anything else yer likely to hear. Harry Pussy/Peter Brötzmann/Pita fans this one’s for you.

‘Vertical’ is a bold album – the sort of record you can’t help but pay attention to. Texturally it’s nothing new for Gustaffsson, who’s been dominating the out-musik axis for years, but the inclusion of cracked electronics gives it a unique flavor, folding an early-Mego noise element into his free jazz blueprint. The album was recorded in Austria and Baltimore in Spring and Summer last year, but sounds almost like a single thought – processes are electronic, but the energy is live and effervescent.

Flutes squirm over broken engine electronix and balloon scrape annoyance on ‘Flesh Jazzz’, practically daring hi-volume listening, while the smartly titled ‘Reciprocal Violence’ sounds like an orchestra of broken oscillators dying as a drum kit falls off a cliff. The title track is the album’s most generous, clocking in at almost six minutes and approximating jazz most convincingly. Both players fluctuate in-and-out of different dimensions, skipping inconsistently thru electronic and acoustic spaces. It’s a virtuoso performance that fully blurs the line between analog and digital, binary and physical, in the best way.