I am not quite sure what it is, but this one feels a lot weaker than Encounters. It feels less dreamgazey, atmospheric and ethereal, and more like cutsey but bland alt rock fed into a reverb. A contributing factor could be the vox; they are no longer layered between multiple vocalists and they are more bare (less fx), which has pros and cons but imo doesnt work so well with the lazy shoegaze singing style here. Tracks like 6-8 feel all too samey and a touch naive. 10 brings on a nice wall of fuzz but it doesn't save the carrots. This meh feel already started with 1 which is nice but passable, but 2 and especially 3 bring up the catchiness a lot and are some of the few tracks I'll keep from this. But sadly by 4, the naive gnagnan feel had already started. I really don't think it was a matter of mood with this one as I was wanting to jam more of them, it's just less enjoyable for me than the debut. 3.3
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