Album Review by The Dreaded Press " October 17th, 2008 by The Editor, Dreaded Press "See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya…" goes one of the refrains in the opening track of Desalvo's Mood Poisoner, but the cheery down-home Amercanism is delivered with the screeching savagery of a crackhead locked in one of those big charity clothing banks against a backdrop of furious grating guitars and clattering hardcore drums. Desalvo do not make friendly music, folks. But then the packaging of Mood Poisoner told you that straight away, decorated as it is with a painting of weeping ball-gagged nuns praying in a barn full of drooling pigs. And the song titles… any band that can call a track "Latrine Lizard", "Schindler's Lift" or "Cock Swastika" evidently aren't too worried about being considered a bit controversial and confrontational. Desalvo may be signed to Mogwai's Rock Action Records, but there's none of the label founders' sprawling soundscaping to be found here. Instead you get something rooted in hardcore punk and grind metal, but twisted into a brutal schizoid mess that sounds barely controlled, straining at its own minimal constraints to tear free of your speakers and leap into the room, slap you about a bit and spit on your carpet before scampering into the kitchen to do something illegal to the family dog. Desalvo mix monochord stoner bludgeon played at a million miles per hour with scraping angular guitar riffs that trade melody for sheer aggression. Mood Poisoner's sheer rhythmic