Bringing black metal tonalities and drum-work to otherwise fairly sedate melodies and indie rock flavoring, making for an interesting but not entirely successful blend. Bounding between clean crooning and rough howls, the vocals give the drums stiff competition for doing the most work in the music, while the guitar tends to provide either wandering background tunes or straight-forward counterpoint to the drums’ harder rhythms. Apart from the earnest genre-bending, there’s not too much in the way of compelling material or emotional depth (e.g., “I never wanted to feel this way!”, from closing track “Whispers”), and, in spite of some clear potential, the whole thing ends up feeling sadly underdeveloped.
Scrambled Brains 