I really think that one of the strengths of this music, regardless of its equal ability to put one off, is how it can just grab-bag its way through elements. & Crazy‘s “End of Memory” started off making me feel like a J-rock interpretation of Evanescence, for instance.

You know, nu-metally and -core-y. … You guys are jerks.

It settles into familiar territory before too long, and then those choruses sound like something out of early HKFC.

Anyway, I had no idea that they were releasing on Universal. That’s … does Universal have some kind of thing for 1B-level rock idols?