The North Carolina based avant-garde rock band comes through with their new album Funeral Noise Exists, and although the album is a hot mess of styles, sounds, and experiments, there is a lot of hope for this band to come through with a great record into the future; but it needs a lot of help. The influences on the record run largely from the political banter of a Rage Against the Machine, the modern style of free improvisation and EAI, the no wave noodling of swans, the horrific presentation of a Daughters, and the fusion influences of a Clipping or John Zorn. However, the way these styles come together really needs to be improved because the pacing of the album is a bit lost. Also, the vocals really need to be improved. Much of the album is a spoken word style reading, but his delivery and emphasis feels more like he is half asleep then a haunting political statement.
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