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Opener "Ascension (Intro)" does what it says on the tin - it stands as an apt overture to the proceedings herein, leaning on harsh, bass-heavy noise bursts before sprinkling in grime decorations and ascendant, reverb-drenched, hollow-synth contrapuntal melody that very much anchors the record into the now, referencing the likes of instrumental grime revivalists such as Dark0, Murlo or Slackk. "Xenotrack" then shifts gears into what sounds like an inspired take on the psytrance of yesteryear, only slower, steadier...; A degraded, alien morphology supporting a nonetheless "club" grammar - making the title, yet again, quite self-explanatory. ...;Which rings true a third time for "Bot-o'-War", a raucous industrial epic which evokes a combat deployment scene in a mecha-centric direct-to-video feature, wherein the subtle naval theming of the title is aurally transcribed into the suffocating, submerged sound design of the latter half. On the flip, "Short Circuit" (the grimiest of the lot), an unintuitive blend of Mumdance doing his thing, a run-of-the-mill "Ice Rink" homage and a trap lead that could turn heads at a GHE20G0TH1K party, somehow works. Finally, "Invasion", replete with sci-fi-blockbuster-trailer aesthetics, sounds like if Two Steps from Hell remixed a mash-up of individually much subtler cuts from Pan Sonic and Gatekeeper, respectively. Absolute alienation indeed.