RMW317

This s**t rocks, front to back.

It is a fun listen for the most part, but it doesn’t really offer much that is unique or all that memorable. If you like punk-infused power pop, and you just want more of that, you will like this. If not, you can afford to give it a miss.

The songs themselves are enjoyable for the most part, but I cannot get over the mixing on this one. It sounds like a blocked nose. All of the sounds are coming from one place and seem to all exist at the same level, which makes the whole thing sound incredibly cluttered. It's a shame, really.

Maybe that's what it's supposed to sound like? I'm not sure. I don't have a great deal of experience with the genre. But I can't get into it.

For the record, the production on this album is really interesting and quite unlike a lot of things I've heard. Most of the time it works. The album is very aesthetically coherent and at times enjoyable.

I'm just not sure it's for me, personally. A lot of the performances feel kind of monotonous and flat, save for a couple of instances towards the end of the album. Though the coherence I mentioned is a strength at times, the ambiguity of emotion that comes from the, well, lack of it in the ... read more