There are interesting ideas musically. I'm personally not really into the vocal style / tone a lot of the time, and the lyrics don't help. I almost get a "look what your moody teenager grew into" vibe from this one. How some parts are constructed can carry some decent ideas and does carry the songs through. Just not enough coming together for me to stay into it. There's an excessive use of bass sometimes, too forward, not surrounding. Gets better towards end of album. Industrial bits do vaguely cross-reference the late 90s a lot, but then there's like goth trap. Honestly his higher pitch variation in rapping at least proves he can sound more than moody about "dark shit." "I can't relate." The ideas are spirited, but I'm just craving more than what I get on most of these, sonically and in terms of meaning and substance. Even going full ignorant might be preferable to me, just land on some kind of epitome. I didn't get that here, personally. XXXTentacion came up on shuffle after this and I thought Ghostemane actually went hard for a second, wooooow lololol
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