Tårn is a record that rushes by in a lean 36 minutes. At the same time, it’s deceptively ingenious, and packs an awful lot into its fat-shorn runtime. Straddling the punk/metal borderline, South Africa’s Ruff Majik (not sure about their choice of misspelled name) pleasingly mix Black Flag and Black Sabbath. There’s both frantic speed-merchant punk vitriol and lethargic detuned mammothery – and that’s just what’s crammed into the first song. Similarly, standout track ‘Gloom & Tomb’ evokes both the do-it-yourself grime of a garage band and the flamboyant noodling of an 80s stadium act. I know the heavy music press have been quite critical of Johni Holiday’s (admittedly very unusual) voice, which has been perceived as whiny. But, for me, his voice makes a nice change from the usual unintelligible howls and screeches that proliferate across much punk/metal, and – along with inventive switching between very fast and very slow, and the occasional weird experiment – it helps Ruff Majik stand out.