There are four interesting things about rototoms, a specific type of drum that plays an outsized role on YHWH Nailgun’s debut album. Rototoms were a strong spice in any band because, four, and most importantly, the sound of a rototom is unmistakable. This sound is a signature element of the New York noise rock band’s tough, impressive, astonishingly good debut, 45 Pounds. For their debut, they signed to the London imprint AD 93, a key to locating and defining the sound of YHWH Nailgun in contemporary music. There is a string that begins with the slack, patient style of Still House Plants, pulled tighter by the avant-electronic grooves of Moin, and finally torqued to its maximum tension by YHWH Nailgun.