I do not know too much about this band, but they came highly recommended by Jesse Sprinkle, who played the drum tracks for this album, "The Spooky Loop." It also features Maggie Waggoner, from estis p@rc, who supplies some beautiful BGVs.
When first popping this record in, it would be hard not to notice some obvious similarities to Radiohead, Annie, and some of the Beatles' later stuff, but it is equally hard not to notice all of the original aspects and varied influences of this album as well. There are a number of instruments used, with strong keyboard and percussion layers, dropped on top of haunting vocals and eerie melodies. The resulting sound is a tranceful, rebellious shoe-gaze of sorts. Sometimes light and borderline cheerful, often mournful, despondent, and whimsical, this album carries many moods.
Beyond its dark, bittersweet melodies and Transylvanian vocals, this album offers striking and profound messages. A lot of the subjects they touch on are masked by prose and sarcasm, but a definite spiritual quality still escapes. Most of the messages I could discern were about love, hope, despair, hypocrisy, superficialness, and redemption. There is definitely not any rhetoric on this album, and I suspect a lot more rebuke than anything. Very beautiful, very disturbing, very diverse, very poetic, very challenging album.
