More experimental than the first but, oddly, is much worse because of it. While the first album felt like an actual band playing some songs, a lot of the songs on this album just felt like random samples haphazardly thrown into some Zach Hill jams. The more straightforward punk songs just fall short because of how unmemorable and mediocre they are. The ska songs are interesting considering the preceding album; however, these batch of songs are even more unmemorable than the sample based songs and the punk songs because they sound even more underdeveloped. Hill's performance as a drummer is admirable, but everything else musically fails to compliment it in any way. The weak vocals worked well on the first album because they added to the lo-fi garage rock songwriting; they just feel completely out of place on this album (the gibberish lyrics can sometimes be charming tho). Very disappointed but still anticipating these guys' next one
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