Lesser Evil

Lesser Evil ultimately comprises a raw thrill that excites just as much as it challenges

That's what's most captivating about Lesser Evil-the manner in which Woodhead conjures a frenzied world replete with regret, unrepentant pleasure, and a foreboding sense of losing it at any given moment.

These songs sound complex, but lyrically they're mostly about simple things that we fixate on when we're young: love, identity, escape.

Doldrums’ ability to hop genres with ease, write catchy melodies, and–above all–sound like he’s having fun doing it renders his place unique in an overcrowded genre, and his debut a promising one. 

In the wider picture, this may not make the impressive strides 'Visions' or Purity Ring's 'Shrines' did, but there's every chance 'Lesser Evil' can find an audience to smother it in all the affection it deserves. 

Like a good new party drug, ‘Lesser Evil’ finds a sweet spot more often than not if you let it.

It’s true that Lesser Evil wanders around an uncompromising and dizzying array of (sometimes harsh, predominantly beautiful) sounds, but if one takes a step back and looks at what Airick Woodhead is doing, that’s the point.