Tree_Gamer

I will admit, the start of this album did not grab me at all. "Damn Door" was not a song I personally enjoyed comparatively, and I quickly started falling off after "Cry."

There was something missing from those early songs, and while I am unsure if I just wasn't in the mood for it early on, or if I really did personally dislike those early tracks, I don't know as of this moment. However, It was after "Viva Discordia" where I got more in than ever.

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This albums is such a strange one to review. For my first time listening to anything from That Handsome Devil, I will say the immediate stand out is their idea of an almost abrasive vocal performance compared to what you expect with the instrumental tracks. While I don't think they are bad at singing, the group almost takes a misdirection immediately, hitting you with this idea that they almost don't even want to keep in that pocket that you find most artists so comfortably slide ... read more

Ouch, getting here and seeing these reviews really does hit me hard, and I humbly apologize for everything that I'm about to say.

But this album did not hit me in the same way as it hit many others. I simply found this album to be a more mixed experience than something all around fantastic, and that could obviously be something in relation to my own taste and what was presented here, but it just wasn't something for me. There were tracks, obviously, that I felt were quite great, and ... read more

The first thing I can comment on might not even be on the record itself, but rather the mixing. I'm not sure if perhaps I obtained it with bad mixing, or if it was a choice to have the vocals be so low on the actual track volume. Either way, much like my review over the Misfits first album, that did tank the performance a little bit.

In other senses, the music was rather all over the place in best of terms. It seemed like they were trying quite a few things, and usually I am a fan of ... read more