
○○○○● MANCHESTER trio Kong , who sound like a spinosaurus tearing through Middlesbrough with predictably madcap results, are a strange beast. Ferocious in their approach to making music on debut album Snake Magnet , they rip the still-beating heart out of traditional straightforward punk, before toying with it like deranged madmen. Although the order of the day is brutal punk, there's an almost prog rock-like amounts of changes and shifts within songs, as well as extended elctronic freakouts such as on Good Graphics . But the group go so far with their art, [...]