With this record, Le Butcherettes take you on an emotional roller coaster full of vast peaks and plummeting dips. Intense songs such as the opening track “Burn The Scab” takes a sultry dip as the brooding “My Child” reveals more of Gender’s narrative that almost becomes a dark spoken word carried by a blues strut. Melodic ballads such as “Your Weakness Gives Me Life” reveals a mature growth from Bender’s prior work, but also sounds similar to something Bosnian Rainbows would produce. There’s even a short track on the album that just features Henry Rollins’ spoken word.

While Bender has matured in both lyric and vocal range (and style), Cry Is For The Flies is still a crazy piece of work. Bender has not abandoned those hysterical and possessed-like vibes that attracted us in the first place. The album is a wild ride and I highly recommend you take for a spin below.