Parts & Labor rip the seam open after fifteen years away

Parts & Labor’s Set Of All Sets announcement on 23 June lands with the satisfying sound of a machine that has been unplugged for fifteen years suddenly deciding the room needs more voltage. The noise-punk outfit have shared Seamripper as the first preview of the new album, and the title is exactly right. A seamripper is a small tool, but it exists to undo structure. That is basically a mission statement for a band that has always thrived on abrasion, melody, electronics and rock momentum colliding at unsafe speeds. The return is not interesting simply because of the long gap. It is interesting because noise punk currently needs more artists willing to make distortion feel purposeful rather than decorative. Seamripper sounds like a warning that Parts & Labor did not come back to smooth the fabric. They came to pull the thread.

Source: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/parts-labor-detail-first-new-album-in-fifteen-years-set-of-all-sets