Heavy late 90's guitars! Not dead! Piled one on another on another, lined up end to end to forge an endless riff backbone that the occasional breakdown or doubledown can branch from.
I've read comparisons to early Smashing Pumpkins, but I'd take this one more step down the chain and go with the Pumpkins-aping Silversun Pickups*: there's a singlemindedness to the guitars and the writhing sentiment: Pink Frost found a sound they like and apply it with furious diligence, but haven't really probed its boundaries with any particular eagerness. Find a riff! Repeat! Repeat! Take a break from it! Bring it back! Bury some vocals under there saying nothing in particular and hope that riff's enough!
I like overlayered guitars; I even like these particular riffs; but its not enough to particularly keep my interest. We'll see what their next one brings: can they find kaleidoscopic new places to go with their guitar talents? Are they the Silversun Pickups or The Smashing Pumkins? 3/5
* or even Oceania-era Smashing Pumkins, when they'd kind of given up on doing anything especially interesting
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