“Driver” starts similar to the way “I” did opening I have lost all desire for feeling; with an audible click to announce the track, a momentary pause that draws you in, and then a blistering guitar cuts in to launch the song like a bomb. “Driver” is no rehash though. It’s built on sections, shifting between almost shimmering parts where every instrument locks into a steady momentum powered by Ray McAndrew’s fury of down strokes and Shaun Sutkus’ buzzing synths, before the song bursts open, Garrett Koloski’s drums suddenly crashing everywhere next to amped up tempo. Keeping it all together are Meredith Graves’ vocals; the fury turned down just a notch from the demo, but now presented here with the intensity doubled, conveying a sense of gritted teeth frustration reaching an apex as her words interweave excellently through the clatter her bandmates create. The final moments of “Driver” represent all this preciously, as everything in the song goes into a final, momentary frenzy of noisy chaos, then pit stopping at the opening riff before everything just stops. “Driver” feel relentless; even through its sudden starts and stops, the song engulfs you until the very last moment. Perfect Pussy have grabbed hold of a precision here that, melded to internal chaos that runs through all their songs, has result that is just jaw-droppingly excellent. Again.
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