I've owned this record a long time. Don't have a lot to say that hasn't been posted already: it definitely has a touch of the 80's goth / Paisley Park fixins', but there's a lot of underlying blues elements and even some post-rock yearning that come to the fore in cuts like 'Blackest Bile' and the sleepy, monasterial 'No One Is Ever Going To Want Me'. "Beautiful yet strange" is an applicable phrase in this case.
Easily a strong 8.5 out of 10 from me.
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