Was very surprised when the vocals kicked in on this one. Based on the music I was expecting standard -core/screamo vocals, but they're standard death metal sounding gutturals that don't deviate. Aside from some limited screamy background vocals in the last two tracks, there are none of the vox you'd typically associate with -core stuff, which is a huge plus. The music itself is unfortunately quite core-rooted which I was expecting from the aesthetics and some of the tongue-in-cheek songtitles--it's a mix of progressive metalcore/mathcore and (mostly melodic) DM. It's not all bad, as the opening riff to "Magic Can Only Be Taken Seriously When You're Wearing a Tuxedo" seems very reminiscent of some (Scandanavian?) deathdoom riff I can't place. Sadly, little cool parts like this are quickly lost to the time changes of the spastic "progressive" songwriting. While this is still not my kind of thing, it's quite remarkable how the vocal style alone raises this from music I would probably find quite annoying to something tolerable.
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