Room 101 “The Grand Prize Game”

(roburtreynolds.bandcamp.com) Chaotic hardcore by NOLA-via-Chitown noisemaker Reynolds achieves what so many of the greatest 80s hardcore 7” EPS achieved…it feels like a full-length pummeling LP. With a measly five songs (“why back in my day hardcore acts squeezed twice that many…”) he still manages to make enough intense noise to compromise a levee and eutanize a nutria, while holding tight to his hometown roots with his titular saluting to Chicago’s greatest clown (not Gacy or Rahm, btw).