Midland-Mayak Cohorts 'The Only Game In Town' marks a sparkling return by frontman Edgar Osney to full-scale conceptual coherence reminiscent of Twentieth-Century efforts by the prolific artist such as 'Another Workingmans Dead' and 'The Murder of Tom Mboya'.

Here, the wounded, powerless working class protagonist croaks 'press and glue' intermittently throughout the albums 14 tracks, the mantra encompassing brilliantly shifting modes of banality, irony, jealousy and disgust. Osney and his talented 'cohorts' have juiced the conventions of contemporary recorded music into a dissonant, terrifying pulp spiked with intervals of airy, lyrical beauty.

Pour yourself a glass -- but watch out for the formaldehyde fumes. 'The Only Game In Town' enacts a thematic masterpiece of pressing cultural importance and an invitation to feelings rarely felt in the presence of deliberate audio.