Initially I wasn’t sure of the record, think I’d become so used to seeing and hearing those songs live that I felt the recording was a bit flat. Thankfully it has grown on me quite significantly, “Near DT MI” is the standout for me, the sections just explode into each other and it’s the song that actually feels like it has genuine rage in those lyrics and vocals, also that guitar line when it comes in is fantastic, sounds like a computer malfunctioning.
What I will still say is the record lacks a cohesiveness which is totally understandable based on their writing process and it’s rare for a band to release pretty much all the first songs they ever write together, I think seeing as they’ve recorded an album together now they’ll probably be a bit more conceptual about the follow up. But who knows, they may just enjoy their process of writing and continue putting stuff like that out every year, I’d buy it!
