Right off the opening track, there is a great deal for me to like. The vocals are the anxiety-ridden warble of death, well, maybe not encompassing the entire genre, but picking up where Rozz Williams left off. Then, rather than using your typical death rock guitar tones, sonically things fall more in line with post-punk on the first track, but we get a little more of the balls death rock brought to the goth music by having some rock and roll to back the morbid reflections. They are not just using Ouija boards to conjure up the sound of the past, but care about writing songs.
"See Me" finds the pace slowing to create more space in verse as the vocals shift into a lower croon that has more in common with Grave Pleasures. He then stays in this croon for "Again," which opens with a more emotive goth vibe that builds in intensity from there. This one needed to couple of listens to fully ingest, as it's different from the other songs in how it ebbs and flows. "Dayone" is more of a sonic pounding that finds the vocals riding it rather than being the focal point of the song.
"Working on myself" is interesting as an electronic atmosphere, and a depressing haze is cast over its hypnotic drift into the shadows. It is almost like a darkwave ballad of sorts. I will give this album a 9.5 and see how it grows on me. There is less of the Halloween window dressing and more introspection in what they do, but the overall vibes align with the darker tendencies to win me over.
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