When a band incorporates many styles it’s very important there’s no big drop off in quality. Some of the parts with female vocals sound like what I consider “emo”. I love Jawbreaker and I like Jimmy Eat World, I’m not at all an emo hater. But with this band the melodic structure isn’t there and the female vocals are weak. On the other hand, the pure ambient and black metal parts are excellent. My take is a lot like Mord’s in that we both like some styles but can’t buy into the whole thing. What we like and don’t like are different but hey different strokes for different folks sort of like I’m sexually arroused by Dana Plato before her breast augmentation and Mord prefers the post-suicide Plato.
6/10
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