The Noise Rock genre seems to have three main branches: the unstructured, purely noisy one that finds inspiration in Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music; the very structured, super poppy prong that likes to bury beautiful melodies under layers and layers of feedback and guitar noise – a la’ Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psycho Candy; and finally the still structured but inherently non-pop "thing" that Sonic Youth invented and then refined in their "mature" period, when they mastered the art of what can be called "dissonant songwriting": i.e. noise rock that works like pop music, but achieves that genre’s "liberating" effect through the interaction of dissonant elements, rather than melodic ones. Adult Themes is one of the few bands that’s developing that idea and making it their own. This band’s deranged melodies and dissonant instrumental deviations somehow make perfect musical sense. Their controlled cacophony raises musical tension exactly to the point of alarm rather than ear piercing, unbearable madness. The songs in their debut 7" – Young Bodies and Four Fires – are perfect examples of this and mark an obvious improvement from the band’s previous unreleased recorded material. Highly recommended.