Reviews

When one first hears this record, they are immediately hit by lo-fi indie boy and girl vocals that sound like they came from 1995, but apparently that’s the cool new thing to do now. The first song "Memo" off D60's album is okay, but it doesn’t really do much because it sounds so old and tinny. “Missionary” sounds a bit like bad spoken word; for most of the song, the band sounds like it’s on autopilot but by the end, the band wakes up and begins to moderately thrash around and pick the song up from its doldrums.

It’s clear from listening to several songs that the band is trying to combine several different styles into something that works for them, but they don’t yet have the experience behind them to pull it off efficiently. One of the worst songs on the record is “Instinct” where the female vocals take over and make it sound like a whiny Babes in Toyland outtake, and that’s just not something that anyone wants to hear right now. By the end of the song, the band is just colliding around in a cacophony of noise that goes nowhere.

About halfway through, you’re hoping for something to break the monotony and the closest that comes is “Animal Nativity,” which comes across a bit happy with a bright keyboard line bringing the song out of the album’s darkness. It’s a halfway decent song and it’s also the album’s lone saving grace. Everything else, with the slight exception of “Hell to Pay,” with its stoic bass line working throughout, just doesn’t work and has the listener begging to hear something original and fresh. Even the song titles are misleading, “Metal Song” is anything but and it ends up being another depressing entry in the band’s catalogue. All in all, a very disappointing and depressing record.