Whereas The Echo of the World – a first to surface from Cloud Nothings’ doubtless ruinous forthcoming Last Building Burning full-length – heard Dylan Baldi et al. in expressive, very much experimental mood, Leave Him Now conversely marks a reversion to a rather more direct, undeviatingly visceral thrash. Evocative, then, of I’m Not Part of Me, it makes for an impassioned plea to ditch an unspecified somebody who “doesn’t want you/ He just wants to have you around,” Baldi solidifying his status as A Nice Guy in the process. So good to have he and Cloud Nothings coming back around again, in short.

Last Building Burning is available from October 19^th via Wichita Recordings, while Cloud Nothings play EartH on January 31^st.