In a musical world featuring a handful of genres including the “post” prefix (post-rock, post-punk, post-polka probably), audiences deserve a dose of pre. And who better to deliver some proto insanity than British brain bashers PRE? For their aptly titled Third LP (which was recorded by a more famous noisenik, Steve Albini), they’ve put together what is being marketed as “the first ever 7″ vinyl “LP” in history,” five no wave noise raves sweep over you in under 10 minutes.

Before Male Bonding hit the big time, John Arthur Webb and Kevin Hendrick played together in PRE, explaining the two year stretch without an album since Hope Freaks (though vocalist Exceedingly Good Keex’s time touring with The Big Pink and her other project Comanechi complicates the schedule as well). But that absence has gone off without the five piece missing a raucous, ear-splitting note. Opening track “Yr Fun is Fun” encapsulates everything that is so, well, fun about PRE. Two basses rumble and kick along with a rollicking drum, pumping out a rapidfire, funky rhythm, with a guitar counterpointing and squealing, Keex yelping and shouting out like a sugared up psych patient.

“Dweller” follows, demanding headbanging at its angular, punky middle, until a brief sing-along bridge skips along like a pop version of the band dropped in for about 12 seconds. On “Cold (2)”, Keex sounds like a hyper-active version of “Art Star” era Karen O. The formula gets reworked on “White Castle”, the punky, shouted backing vocals adding as much grit as the dueling basses. Webb’s metallic guitar shredding and Keex’s primal shouts play off one another perfectly on closer “Love, Peace, and Hair Grease”, things imploding into frenetic, primal energy.

While this 7″ album is a real pleasure, it’s just too brief. The CD version comes with eight bonus tracks, and some of them are immensely better than those on the 7″. “Treasure Trail” may be the absolute best of the set, shouts about the need to “fuck it up” mirroring the slowly decomposing song structure. Grab the CD edition for the full experience, and the 7″ for the novelty.