After falling together from the ashes of George Annihiliation a few years ago, Bridgend noiseniks Smiler have finally got themselves into a studio and transported themselves back to California in the mid-80s. The result is 'Con-Demned', a blur of nine songs in barely twenty minutes that harks back to the heyday of spazzed-out hardcore, bringing  back those fond memories of DRI's 'Dealing With It', Cryptic Slaughter's 'Convicted' and Adrenalin OD's 'Wacky Hi Jinx'.

Mike, Ioan, Gav and Mike make the kind of noise on songs like 'Pro Choice', 'Violent Bastard' and 'Macho Homophobe' that makes you want to make your own band shirt and hang upside down from some swings in homage to them. Venice Beach 1983, if you get my drift. But you can't help but fucking love the nihilistic simplicity of it all. Ioan chucks in some typically off-kilter breakdowns to mix things up amongst the flat out blur and Mike barks out his biting social commentary like a modern day Welsh Billy Milano.

If you're looking for technically proficient, over-produced, soulless black-fringed shite then please steer clear of this. If you're looking for something to get mercilessly drunk to whilst wearing a flip-peaked cycle cap then jump right in. If there's any justice the people at 924 Gilman might even beg them to go and play a matinee there. Unlikely, but failing that you could just pick this up and party like it's 1984.

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