At some point in living memory, Rock 'n' Roll ceased to be synonymous with sex. Responsible adults refocused their gaze-of-outrage at rappers, and rock became the empty vessel of pop, a host to the parasitic reconstruction of 'retro' and developed a tendency towards naïve childishness.

That said, I haven't got a chip on my shoulder or anything. I love pastiche rock!

I just can't remember the last time I heard anything that disturbed me in that dark mode of pubescent discomfort. It's a feeling that has become all but extinct in the skinny-jean androgyny, costumery and light-hearted gimmick of the current musical landscape. Enter New Jersey double-act boy/girl.

The male/female ratio of vocal-guitar/drums proves functional again with the pairing of Eric Stiner and Lisa Cusack. Here boy/girl have offered up a noise concentrate. Secret Secret Secret is so viscous that it takes several listens to dilute the three singles and two sound collages down to a review-able consistency. It's miraculous that they succeed in lowering the listener into a deep, dank place in less than ten minutes. Time loses its earmarks and quivers with the echoes of found-sound and the unsettling moans of Eric Stiner.

Beyond being 'sexual,' there is something disturbing, unnatural and monstrous about the hinge these songs swing on. A collection of psychoanalytical detritus echoes with titles like "Rorshack" and "Stare the Sun" while "The Shakes" evokes the dry heaving of a simultaneous revulsion and attraction.

The final, threatening "Rorshack" teeters in between the brimstone judgment of Junior Kimbrough's "Tramp" and the groveling seduction of Nirvana's "Rape Me." Like the hypnotic, spectral twang of a lone banjo in the woods, a subliminal message starts to ring in the listener's ear: Run away…fast.

These are not mock screams of falsetto ecstasy. Secret Secret Secret is composed of the moans of the victim and the mutterings of an assailant. And with the speed of both the prey and the hunter, the pursuit is as much unnerving as it is seductive.