june410

some songs show promise but the album feels very drone-y and bland. too repetitive and one-note for my liking.

ear ouchie, brain happie.

the debut LP from legendary post-emo group, the brave little abacus, masked dancers, exists as a triumph. on the surface, it exhibits tropes of the genre such as the near iconic emo tapping, the odd and frequent time signature changes, and the kind of unchained screaming one would come to expect from the genre. but on masked dancers, they don’t necessarily feel this way at all. even if so, the way these songs are structured is inventive enough as to almost seperate it from the genre ... read more

great lyrics and amazing vocal performances but lacklustre mixing and instrumentation leaves this record falling short of its contemporaries