It seems like Italian bands have picked up where American bands left off in the mid nineties.

American hardcore bands were headed into a truly creative vein around the end of the last century, melding styles and mixing sounds to create rock records worthy of more than one or two listens. Edible Woman definitely follow that line, creating a hardcore record with some really interesting bends and folds. Often intriguing and surprising, their songs seem constructed by some crazed madman assembling things with his own, unique style of logic; what's truly impressive, is how well it works. This record is constantly surprising in where it goes, often within the span of a single song, yet it all somehow seems to seamlessly fit together.

Spare Me/Calf is reminiscent of Last of the Juanitas with vocals; this is a dense album, rich with varied rhythms and melodies, often changing into themselves. Hardcore punk, mainstream rock, and driven math rock are aptly mixed with a slight industrial and jazzy feel, like if Ministry released a guitar driven jazz record. Not that that's a bad thing; Edible Woman succeed in creating an interesting amalgamation of sounds together on one record.

-Todd Berry