This is officially a Billboard Top 20 hit at the moment and it's bland af. The vocals sounds overly processed, the interpolation of Stick Season is unnecessary at best and I bet she's not even a lefty in terms of her politics
The Mortal Downer is definitely a step in the right direction on all fronts.
Yeah the mix is still muddier than I would like, yeah some of the songs really sound like DEG are on auto-pilot and yeah it doesn't reach the heights of Uroboros, DSS or Arche.
However Mortal Downer seems to be a more cohesive record that takes a little while to get going. Up until "The Devil In Me" Mortal Downer sounds like a natural progression of Phalaris but what comes after really makes Mortal ... read more