Since bringing their brand of "avant-techno" insanity to Timedance last autumn, Giant Swan has become one of the most talked-about twosomes in electronic music. This outing on Whities has been getting a lot of heat, and it's easy to see why. Opener "Pax Britannica", for example, is a near perfect fusion of doom-laden, punkish paranoia, skewed techno-punk and Livity Sound style broken techno percussion, while "Ianah" is rubbery redlined techno-punk of the highest order. There's no letting up on the B-side, either, where "The Plaque" sees the West Country misfits douse distorted, speaker-rattling techno beats in torrents of razor-sharp fuzz-bass, heavily processed vocal screams and oodles of electronic noise.