Having trouble with your neighbor? You could go the high road and submit a complaint to your co-op board. Or, on the opposite extreme, call the cops. But there is now a perfect solution between those choices. Play this latest album from the international trio of Merzbow (aka Masami Akita, electronics), Mats Gustafsson (baritone and bass saxophones, electronics) and Balász Pándi (drums) on repeat 24 hours a day and wait. Either your neighbor unloads his apartment at a loss, or you lose your mind and forget that anything past your four walls exists.

John Coltrane had his sheets of sound, The Grateful Dead its Wall of Sound. This group has its typhoon-populated-with-millions-of-suddenly-unextinct-megalodons of sound.

Cuts Cut was recorded at the Colisée Desjardins in Victoriaville on the last night of the 2018 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. The building also houses the local junior hockey league team and possibly Gustafsson, a big fan of the sport, was channeling its bloody, salivating dentist aggression within the ensemble. The single title piece just crests 45 minutes and it is hard to find skronk of this intensity away from a Borbetomagus or Napalm Death show. There are occasional moments of subtlety when the tumult dies down a tad, allowing for individual contributions to be heard — saxophone sounding like it is trapped at the bottom of a well — but rarely and not really the point anyway.

This is a difficult listen to be sure, not something to reach for under most circumstances, even for dedicated fans of noise, though experiencing it live must have been a hoot and a half. But it can also be a welcome respite if, as in the case of this author, the alternative was an uncoordinated quartet of gas-powered leaf blowers outside one's window.