If you’re going to name your album after one of Jean Luc-Godard’s most unsettling films, you’d better make it great. Imperial Triumphant succeeded in doing so with 2020 masterpieceAlphavillethanks to a fearless blend of spastic free jazz, terrorizing wails of despair and unorthodox rhythmic patterns that have no mind to please listeners so much as destabilize their sense of reality.Alphavilleis catharsis through nightmarish aural immersion and, like Hell, the only way out is through.Kelsey Chapstick