I was listening to college radio the other morning on my way to work, which is something I usually don’t do. Like most people I have to ease my way into the day and usually prefer listening to people talk on NPR while the morning fog lifts from my brain. But the car radio was already switched to that station and a cool unknown song was on so I stuck with it. The next one, also new to me, was a winner too so I happily cruised along with it. And then it hit: one of the most jarring, jaw droppingest songs I’ve heard in a long time grabbed me by the feet and smashed my head against the punk rock. Even at a moderate volume it sounded like my car speakers were shredding and the windows shook from the impossibly low bass without benefit of a subwoofer. “I was born in a witch’s cauldron,” was the only line I could pick out from the distorted, buried-in-the-mix vocals. As if it didn’t already have my attention, the song suddenly launched into an incredibly violent galloping thrash that nearly caused me to drive off the road. Who the hell was this?!?

I missed what the DJ said when she read the set list so I had to do a little sleuthing. I crosschecked unfamiliar artists in rotation at Album 88 with their AMG descriptions and found a likely suspect in Part Chimp. Quite happily I found them at eMusic, checked the samples, made a positive ID, and immediately downloaded the album. The song in question, “War Machines,” and all the rest have been roaring out of my various speaker setups ever since.

I Am Come is about as subtle as a bone cracking kick in the ribs. Take Mogwai at the peek of a crescendo, mix in generous amounts of Sonic Youth’s distinctive tunings and angular playing, recruit a gorilla to play drums with sledgehammers, and you’ve got the grinding rawk juggernaut called Part Chimp. Oh, and turn the amps up until the recording meters shatter! This album’s eleven tracks are amazingly noisy, but not in an off putting or grating way. The band sculpts a very satisfying brand of extreme sonic turbulence. It’s certainly not for everyone but fans of ultra loud and intense rock music will definitely get a thrill.

Not convinced by a review in which I spent two paragraphs relaying an anecdote and only one describing the music? Fortunately the band is streaming two songs from the album on their MySpace page, including the aforementioned “War Machines.”