Octaaf

Asylum Lullabies is not a bad album, it just drags at certain points. The songs are solid, but ultimately blend together in a mesh that could be memorable if more diversity was added.

Songs such as these are not entirely strange within Darkwave or Post-Punk more generally. However, usually slower, reverb-heavy tracks work as a counterbalance to catchy singles. I see them as important intermezzos between an album's big tracks, both varieties of tracks are made better by the other's ... read more