Labels: Tor Johnson
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Not particularly engaging is this. 6 songs of post Witching Hour screamo, with requisite blood-curdling screams, keyboards and vaguely metal fast drumbeats and guitars. It sounds much better on 45rpm to me. So it’s all pretty typical, much screaming, much fast playing of instruments, much chaos, much wearing of the white belt. “The Worst Feeling” has an almost jazzy bit where they break it down, that’s reasonably interesting I guess, and the similar intro on “the Machine Stops” is really neat before it bursts into kids shouting for 10 seconds. Otherwise, it’s pretty much by the book. This is solid enough if you’re enthralled by kids making their screamotional racket I suppose, but at times it sounds positively lacklustre, like a band that hasn’t been together that long and is still getting their song writing together. They intrigue by having a song called “Strap Your Body With Explosives and Position Yourself Next to A Major World Leader” but there are no lyrics in the record. I think we’re done.