Six years after dropping Hair Bomb, their first album, local hardcore collective Expectorated Sequence is back, angrier than ever, with The Prolonged Disaster. As presaged on Hair Bomb (on which the last track was titled the same as this new CD), this so-called "disaster" is an explosive follow-up where the band covers even wider territories of the "loud" spectrum. While You’ll Dance and The Bombardment Begins have punk and math rock elements, firebrands like From Now On should ignite screamo aficionados. Even though the project’s musical palette is wider, Expectorared Sequence still delivers a homogenous, linear concept album that may be hard to digest upon first listen, but is so rewarding in the end.