Feed Me's still tops at wielding the meaty squonk of dubstep while (Electric Mountain aside) avoiding huge drops and general brofisty bullshit, and he shows off a lot of tricks here. Some of it works: the clipped cutting of Short Skirt, the casiotone brass and breakdown on Ophelia, Orion's sweeping expectation-defying scope. But its all pretty bloodless, more Orbital than I'd like, and far too infested with trancy female vocals. Orbital's actually a good point of reference: this doesn't commit to bangers (Short Skirt and Chinchilla aside), and doesn't quite pull off chinscratching intricacy, and ends up being a vaguely homeless album of "work music".
Feed Me's managed to keep outside the box in a genre that's already died Dancepunk-fast. Good job knowing what not to do, and good job on the still-untouched Big Adventure, now he's just gotta decide what he is gonna do that's going to get him to the next level 3/5
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