Save for some of the dubstep influences in 'At The Bottom Of The Bottle', this album mostly sounds like it was recorded in 1998, not 2011. I don't know if the nu-metal craze hit Moldova later than most places, but this draws on almost all of turn-of-the-century tropes from said genre, for better and for worse.
Turntable scratching, funky basslines, rapped verses, hip hop influences, thick, down-tuned riffs - they're all here. There's definitely some promise evident, but it's rough round the edges and there are more than one or two misguided ideas (e.g. Butterfly). It's also quite a long record which makes things quite bloated given the musical direction taken lends itself better to shorter, punchier tracks. This is reflected in the better tracks tend to be on the shorter side. Trim the fat off a couple of songs and leave 2 or 3 on the cutting room floor and you would have a more cohesive package I feel.
2.7
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