Dub Egg was the band’s first album for Matador and seemed like an idealistic, sometimes naive expression of relatively happy times and the promise of new possibilities just on the horizon. Two years later, the arrival of third album Chrome Cactus marks another shift for the Young, wiping away any of the soft-focused celebration or dumbstruck bliss of their last album and replacing it with ten slabs of sharper, darker fare. This is not a case of a group sounding like an entirely different band from record to record. Chrome Cactus still has hints of the fuzz-guitar frenzy and punky psychedelia that has graced all of their albums, especially notable on the glowering guitar tones that undercut pulsating tunes like “Chrome Jamb” or the spiraling death rock groove of “Dressed in Black