As the album opens, the serene vox of [maybe] J McClendon, Jonas Newhouse, Daxe Schaeffer, or Layne Smith leads me to the schizophrenia of the autistic spectrum of music styles melded by this quartet from the Island of Misfit Joints and Old Toys. I can't entirely agree with Paste's Grant Samples, who states, "Miraculously, it all works." My earholios do not beg to differ because this frenetic finger painting by small kids with ADHD succeeds or meth heads at the peak of seventy-two ...
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