Last September, Canadian noise-punks KEN mode released NULL, their eighth album. One day shy of a full year on, we have VOID (see what they did there?), their ninth full-length, recorded at the same time and intended as a companion to its predecessor. Both sound unmistakably like KEN mode, but for two albums done at the same time, the differences in tone and intent are clear and striking. The older of the two boiled with an attacking rage, a musical violence, but here, though still barbed and spikey, there’s also a sighing sense of anguish. Channelled through KEN mode’s ingenious, angular punky noise, it’s a nevertheless caustic reflection of a world that isn’t getting any better. Opener The Shrike, with its core of a relentless, one...