A 00's record of uneven quality in the style of the kind of 90's emo/skramz that would go on to influence math-rock but isn't math rock itself. From 1 you can tell the prod isn't the cleanest (despite having jammed the 2020 remaster), but it's alright and the bass is nicely audible. The occasional skramz shouting is cool and in the ?last third the track has some great gutiar play. 2 has cool hardcore bits but the clean vox is a bit borderline meh - the track is still fine though. The softness on 3 is really nice, but the explosion that ensues really isn't all that great. The anger they get to near the end is really cool tho. By 4 the album was already getting into a bit of a noisy blur albeit still cool - it doesnt do enough in the way of hooks and contrast to give a clear feel of progression. 5 is the second track that wowed me (idk which one was first lel) with its pretty calm part and its apocalyptic ending. 6 is an okay calmer track with cool subtle ?banjo additions. 8-9 offers an excellent transition from calm hopefulness at the end of 8 to the very aggressive start of 9 which we see again near the end, tho in between the track gets a bit erratic. The riff at 2:50 on 10 is cool but comes after a bit of downtime, and the weird recording distortion at the end is questionable. 3.8
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