bronze teeth: a waif's rent

London label Diagonal continue their swerve into caustic dancefloor territory with the debut pair of 12" releases from Bronze Teeth. Their extended technoid grooves perfectly match the project's name -- they're tough, hard-edged and intricately sculpted for tensile strength and visceral impact. Dominic Butler is one-third of Factory Floor, and Richard Smith meanwhile, records as L/F/D/M. A Waif's Rent opens hard with "Albion Pressure," ushered in by a cloud of distortion and teeming particulate matter. It gathers momentum and fury as it plays, scuttling forward like a column of ants. "Cut Bronze" and "Tephra" hew stark funk from woody drums.