Lewd Acts have stepped up their game with Black Eye Blues, a full-length full of dirty, grimey hardcore that manages to provide both a searing, original intensity and artistic statement all at once. Black Eye Blues speaks to its mish-mash of various influences and coalesces them into unifying themes and sounds, but that tends to be a gravelly, vaguely metallic hardcore sound that isn't so much menacing as it is a beautifully destructive, surprisingly scant 29 minutes. [more]