EBM duo Youth Code thrash in a stained space where hardcore and metal grind nastily up on the rusted foundations of industrial. That friction intensifies on their new EP Yours, With Malice – them synth lines glare harder, those drums smack that mental bootay punishingly, and the shadows behind it all rear impossibly high.

The weight of their past has been recalibrated toward a fiercer, more uncompromised vision, with Taylor’s voice looming over all. She locks into the machinery of the songs so tightly that circuits and person become indistinguishable, jolting between barked rage and taffy-stretched melodies – themselves glistening brighter than ever before without ever surrendering their extremity. Between them, the two bring a rare intimacy to their collaboration, a closeness which magnifies the intensity of their dialogue in sound, ramping up the aggression without flattening any of the nuance.

• Yours, With Malice, by Youth Code

• Yours, With Malice, by Youth Code