Now this is quite better produced than the EP, and the hard djenty bits sound good. This one has a couple excellent tracks - 3 with its super cool intro and some other great sections, 7 with its great intro too and woven webby riffage, the more atmospheric 8 maybe -, a couple quite weak tracks - 4 which really feels like snoozey dime-a-dozen bedroom djent, 9 which feels fillery, and 10 which is also frankly one of the weakest tracks here save for a couple riffs in the midtrack -, and for the rest is full of appreciable but not quite memorable material. What hurts it the most is the structure, with the two closing tracks being frankly quite weak which drops it a point or two, and transitions or track conclusions going amiss in an awful lot of places, making the album feel rather disjointed. But there is lots of good material here beyond 3,7,8 to make it a wortwhile listen. 1 has good bits, and 2 is really cool in that it gives a broad overview of many flavours of bedroom djents, some bits reminding of Plini, Chon, and covet in alternation. 5 is fine but its relaxed second half is really nice, and 6 is a sweet interlude. So not the album of the decade but a few select tracks I'll come back to. 3.4
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