REVIEW: HINTS' The Way to Function Packs a Scary, Post-Industrial Punch

Cover image for HINTS The Way to Function, by Myke Pelly
HINTS
The Way to Function
(self-released)
**** (out of 5)
Seattle drummer Myke Pelly has dismounted the great power-gloom-rock band Haunted Horses and gone solo with HINTS. His debut release under this handle retains the unrelenting darkness of his previous group and adds more industrial grime and grind and contains the sort of punishing drum work that would make Killing Joke’s Paul Ferguson or PiL’s Martin Atkins proud. The Wa