The first minute and 52 seconds of Uniform’s fifth album is little more than unaccompanied screams. It’s a hell of an introduction to a title-track that spans over 21 minutes and which – like the three songs that follow it – deal unflinchingly with physical trauma, namely vocalist Michael Berdan’s lifelong struggle with bulimia. It’s not, in fact, an exaggeration to say that there are moments on this album that almost replicate the visceral intensity of vomiting. Partly that’s due to Michael’s guttural growls, a voice that rattles and chokes on itself as it exits his mouth. Around it, though, is a brutally cacophonous swirl of sound that, especially on the title track, is harrowing and – oddly, paradoxically, confusingly – comforting. As the song p...