Drums and saxophone provide the unlikely jumping-off point for Sydney experimental duo Party Dozen, who kick up a visceral racket on their effects-lashed third album. Kirsty Tickle’s howling horn blasts and Jonathan Boulet’s forceful drumming create a squall somewhere between free jazz and doom metal on opener “The Iron Boot,” while none other than Nick Cave shows up to deliver an indelible vocal mantra in the final minute of “Macca the Mutt.” Tickle also contributes vocals earlier in the track, albeit intoned through the bell of her sax—and warped with pedals from there. Those guerrilla tactics speak to the pair’s improvisational chops, which see them follow equally fruitful rabbit holes into shrill funk-punk (“Fruits of Labour”), psychedelic jazz (“Earthly Times”), dislocated dub (“Major Beef”), and David Axelrod-esque orchestral flourishes (“Risky Behaviour”). Even considering Boulet’s track record in bands like Parades and Wolf & Cub—and producing acts like Body Type—and Tickle’s far-flung electro-pop origins in Exhibitionist don’t quite prepare the casual listener for how adventurous this record is. It’s every bit a breakthrough for a band that might have been too offbeat to even work in the first place.