While never losing sight of the looming Grand Canyon-styled grooves, Canadian newcomers Ion Dissonance have surgically forged a debut album fit to mystify the mind through a dizzying disharmonic orchestra of technical proficiency and unabashed abrasion. Squawking and squirming like R2D2 and C3PO in a cockfight to the death, Breathing Is Irrelevant asphyxiates even the most assertive of listeners. Undoubedly one of 2003's best releases.