The Canadian duo's newest effort is a collaborative EP with some pretty note-worthy artists. The first track is a cathartic grooving brand of post-punk that finds them working with A Place to Bury Strangers. This of course finds A Place to Bury Strangers bring noise-coated bursts of guitars to the proceedings. The song has a back alley slither that works well. "Beast" is an attempt to weave what they do with the electronic weirdness of Thomas Fec from Black Moth Super Rainbow, who also performs under the moniker TOBACCO. This brings an abrasive form of industrial together where the vocals are screamed more often than not.
Vancouver-based singer Terror Bird lends their voice to the more dark wave-flavored "Brilliant Things" . The weird thing with this is the song was also recorded by Terror Bird and Subterranean Lovers, though that version is more almost Brit-pop in the manner the arrangement unfolds. This darker version works better. There is more of a post-punk to the more organic mix-up with the Actors on the song "No One Left". The guitar jangle is not unlike what we have already heard from this sub-genre before, but it still works well this time around.
"Passing Us By" paints a darker picture than what I would have expected to have come from getting SUUNS involved. It drones very starkly with more of a cold wave feel. The last song features the Los Angles goth hipster project Patriarchy. It is pretty steamy but also simmers in the same shade of neon that you expect outside of the angsty chorus. It seems that a 9 is the highest score I can justify doing something really well and engaging me with the songs, but not to the point of me being hit with the urge to own this upon first listening. So that is the score I am giving it.
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