  
The way I found myself in possession of this album
wasn’t through my usual means of promotional
download’s or through my letterbox, instead
this was handed to me at this year’s Bloodstock
festival as one of the members of the band (vocalist
Dax Partridge) was my camping neighbour and he
was passing them out to everyone and anyone that
would accept one off him, he shifted a lot as
his job was made a lot easier simply by the fact
that he was a wicked bloke. Clever promotion on
his part as well to go to a music appropriate
festival and pass out free stuff with a possitive
attitude, thousands of potential fans, excellent
idea.
The vocals are the thing that particularly capture
my attention for the most part on “Lets
Blame Dahmer” as there’s an almost
identical style taken from the debut Slipknot
album with that screamo rap thing going on but
the tone is a bit off for my liking at times,
“Repent” falls under the same category
but I feel - as I think I’m going to end
up repeating - the production quality may be what’s
to blame. I’m not slating the material though;
just the vocals and vocal harmonies suffering
from lack of effective mixing, that you can find
on “The Soldier and The Poet” the
harmonies fit with each other but not with the
lead vocals, it just makes the whole track seem
a tad messy.
They do have all the right techniques and the
right material to make something of themselves
but I think they should raise a bit more money
next time around and go the full distance to splash
out for the best quality production they can get
for album number 2, if they did songs like “Placebos
Devine” and “Drowning” could
be really crisp sounding lead singles, because
by cleaning up the tone and spicing up those vocal
melodies could really push the material, sharpening
the screams as well would really give it something
extra.
I hate to give negative comments on pieces of
work made with blood, sweat and tears in a business
that’s on the downfall, but it has to be
said. I’m not saying the band’s style
and material are even remotely bad quite the opposite
in fact, there’s some really promising stuff
in here I just think it really needs to be refined
and better produced, I know it can be done now
a days because the production value I’ve
heard come from self financed British artists
who are completely unknown recently is off the
charts. All I’m suggesting the band needs
to do in terms of releases is really stretch the
extra mile, live I reckon they could kill it as
I’ve met and know what kind of lads I’m
dealing with but you can’t put that energy
out on a record, that’s all I’m saying.
3.5/5
Review by James Webb
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