This cult band from Texas may possess one of the most convoluted names in musical history, but there's nothing complicated about the frenetic brand of thrash metal that's already won them a small but devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. Two years on from their breakthrough album Madonna, the hyperactive quartet have returned with another blast of stoner rock that's neither much better or worse than anything they've produced before. Unlike most of their rivals, AYWKUBTTOD add a dash of intellectual pretension to the usual metal cliches: according to them this album is about 'the loss of agrarian innocence in a world preoccupied with numbers. attempting to give us a glimpse into a future that could be either scintillatingly utopic [sic] or unlivably desolate.' There's no particular reason to take any of this seriously, of course and Source Tags And Codes makes much more sense when viewed as a straightforward clutch of pulsating, angst-ridden tunes. Just don't waste your time trying to make out the lyrics.
