Master Boot Record : "Personal Computer"

 The album starts as expected things do not go into a more aggressive and experimental direction for Victor Love until the second song. When it come to the frequencies being manipulated in order to create this sort of thing who is to tell how much manipulation is and how much is shredding. The second song does work int a more glitched out sound at times. "80286" is more punishing in the sounds it hits you with a kind of finds the balance between the retro synth thing and a thrashing attack. I would not call this metal, but it is synth wave for metal heads without a doubt and pretty progressive in the arrangements. The song that comes after it has more ebb and flow though the more synth wave sounds that begin to blur everything together at this point and make me feel like I am listening to one long song. It is not until the lower more blown out sounding synths that this is broken up with heavy. 

There are some moments where he falls into a trap not unlike a band such a Dragonforce falls into to where the shredding speed sounds almost too happy, like Europe that is being played twice as fast. This is not heavy. There is a heavier riff that is evolves into but the rule here is " cool riffs alone does not a good song make". "80486" falls back into the more foot on the monitor rocking at you guns blazing that we have herd this album fall into already. The heavy moments begin to all fall at the end of the song making it feel a little formulaic. I do like the more head banging attack of the song that follows it. It might be the best song on the album. Their is more weight and less notes.  It took seven songs for me to get lost and wonder where in the album I was which is better than most projects doing this sort of thing,

Things get bright and epic, and I begin to check out. The formula shifts and the more interesting darker side begins coming out in the middle of the song though all the shredding is high on the treble end which plays into the brighter sound. The dynamics shift up a little ass the sounds change to a more harpsicord like piece. I will give this album an 8, it's a good at what it does, if you like what it does , very effective, more sound than song when the shredding comes. It drops May 13th on Metal Blade.