finds Louisville's stripping back their metal edge and incorporating some gloom and doom. Still menacing, even without all the screaming and bashing, the sparse, cavernous textures created by producer combined with the songs' jagged dissonance make them severely tense. from 2008's , hinted at this slow and spacious direction, and much of the three-piece's 2011 album plays at a similarly steady pace, half-filled with music that culminates from goth, blues, and no wave, and half-filled with darkness. 's influence is noticeable throughout, both in singer/guitarist 's sing-talk vocal style and in the playing by and . A crawling beat drives the album's middle, on behind sparse blasts of distorted bass and wiry slices of guitar. In other places things become more rocky and primal, with the feedback engaged. But even when ' scorn escalates and the mood becomes more frenetic, always feels detached. Maybe that's what makes it so unnerving, and so good. ~ Jason Lymangrover