The highly experimental Brooklyn combo Gang Gang Dance have, like many adventurous New Yorkers before them, parlayed sheets of artfully sculpted noise, found sounds, and a carefully cultivated air of mystery into a critically acclaimed string of albums. Despite these accolades, for a time it seemed as though Gang Gang Dance’s work might languish along with that of their critically beloved, but commercially moribund forbearers DNA, James Chance, and Lydia Lunch. 2005’s God’s Money, which traded almost ambient sound-scapes, for a more beat driven sound that elevated the groups incantatory jams and sound collages above the level of vaguely diverting instrumental noodling and into the realm of art. The Rawwar EP continues this development, and its three tracks provide a canny fusion of the globetrotting exoticism of groups like the Sun City Girls, and the knowing mythmaking of more theatrical acts like The Swans. Though moments on the Rawar EP, particularly the industrial clanging of the nearly twelve minute “Earthquake That Frees Prisoners,” approach the disorienting abrasiveness of the group’s early work, their more confrontational tendencies are reigned in by a newly found fascination which middle eastern melodies, and spacy dub-like production.