This wild ride opens with a loungy ditty featuring iRis,EXE, which does throw itself into a more dissonant heaviness. "Subtle Whispers to Take Your Breath Away" finds them in a more kinetic grooving take on hardcore that is not unlike Callous Doaboys sonically, though leaning in a more Myspace-influenced era of sound. There is an equal balance of sass and substance. The breakdowns are not delivered predictably, though the hooks are poppy enough to conform to expectations in this regard. They cram a great deal into these three-minute ditties. They do get a little happy for my tastes on the anthemic "And the Two Slipped into the Shadows", though the pop-punk moments are more tolerable than what other artists that dabble in the genre do. At times it sounds like grindcore with Panic at the Disco production. I can understand both what people might like about these guys, as well as what metal heads might not like about them.
"Red Wine and Discontent" keeps a hushed romantic tension that they fire back against with their bouncy take on punk. The sung vocals offer catchy melodies. They jerk you are with the fun-house flavored riffing. "Lubricant Like Kerosene" thumps with a disco-like groove, while they carry a more metalcore aggression at the same time. They prove that their spastic theatrics of sound, do not keep them from writing a compact catchy song on "Silhouettes in Motion". This is not to say they are immune from allowing chaos to disrupt all the moving pieces in motion, as this is what happens with "To the Dance Floor For Shelter".
They are back to a dance-inducing groove with "Rhythm and Rapture". Dancey emo groove are once again their strength on "Sister With a Gun" triffs and they once again balance sugary melodies with stomping riffs and angry screams. "Chewing the Scenery" feels like the pop-punk formula that they often default to has worn thin, but they incorporate enough quirky elements to make it work again on the last album, I will give this one a 9.5, as it's ambitious but pulls of the chaos and hooks in equal measure.
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