Labels: Wantage USA
Review by: Alex Deller
Now this starts off pretty cool with a moody, drawn-out peyote-addled fug of a song that groans pure filthy misery from the depths of its tarnished soul. The music drags, swirls and builds while brooding, multilayered male/female vocals twine themselves morosely throughout, settling somewhere between the rather different worlds of Bardo Pond and Damad.
Unfortunately it largely goes to pot after this wonderful display, jumping spasmodically into a math-metal riff fest which, whilst competent, lacks the leaden density or killer instinct of many similar acts ploughing the same furrow. The boy/girl vocals are still rooted firmly in place, but the bilious chanted majesty of that first track is largely forsaken, thoughtlessly replaced with a series of garden variety yells n’ hollers that add the so-so finishing touches to something that showed plenty of initial promise.