You know I wasn't going to extend my dive into these folks' discog further than this EP, but the synthpop turn they take in places here makes me want to extend for a record or two. The opener is a weird electrocore + vocal montage combo that works well at dragging you in despite ending on a fadeout. Afterwards, 2,3, and later on the closer 6 take a more hypnotic approach, with slow, atmospheric tracks more than they are banger songs. Although it does struggle to reach beyond 'kinda cool' status for me, I do find the tracks quite sucessful at what they do - it's just what they do isn't something I crave often in music. 3 displays some cool abrasive guitars and is perhaps the more notable of the three. The record highlight is definitely 4 and especially 5 though. 4 is a cool track that builds up into synth pop with a sort of slow melancholic goth atmosphere (clear from the itntro), but 5 really goes a step further with a catchy beat and is just a super fun song, even with some brilliant sporadic dissonant moments to keep things interesting. Almost single handedly justifies the opening sentence of this soundoff. 6 is ok, but it left me craving for more stuff similar to 4 and 5. 3.6
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