Portland's furious sci-fi psych punks, BIG BLACK CLOUD, are back from the lab with their latest dirty bomb, the cassette EP Lessons in Fuck You 2. Picking up where they left off with the "tense, taut, seething, screaming fury" (Spin) of their last full-length Black Friday, the agita trio triples down on their intoxicating rarefied mix of punk, noise, garage, psych, surf, and rock for a dark trek that drives and swerves like a B-movie soundtrack through threat-level guitar attacks, groovy alien eviscerations, and goddamn-us-all-to-hell preaching. Lessons In Fuck You 2 finds the band in top form: frantic, pissed-off, and sinister as they further explore their own dark territory with off-balance grooves, instrumental street-race sex jams, and wild freakouts, jagged guitar and cracking drums glued together with rubbery bass overlain with can-you-hear-me-now yells. Elements of the Dead Kennedys, Circus Lupus, Cows, Alice Donut, Nation of Ulysses and the like collide.

11-songs on a purple cassette with orange ink, with a two-sided, full-color J-card and including a download code, limited to 200 copies. [Eolian Empire/Stankhouse]