I'd never really heard any P.O.S. before this release. I had 'Audition' pretty much since it dropped but never listened to it. Maybe I tried it out but It didn't do much for me, I can't remember. Anyway, with this album it does start off brilliantly with 'Let it Rattle' being a great opener for an album and makes you want to try out the rest of the disc. The next two tracks ain't greatly to my liking. Then 'Purexed' hits which is quality. The very beginning of it reminds me of the start of Prince's 'Purple Rain'. From there, 'Purexed' mixes between almost acapella to drums as fast as Usain Bolt. 'Graves' follows on and is another good song following a similar format with in your face type beats and vocals to changing in the middle to soft light almost relaxing music. I've always liked this type of variety in the one song which System of a Down used to do very well with tracks like 'Aerials' and 'Chop Suey' to name a couple.
Moving on and 'Goodbye' reminds me of your more general hip hop tune and not so experimental hip hop I guess as the previous five tracks. It's a bit more chorus based and again works very well and is one of the better tracks. 'Get Smokes' is just okay and not up with the other tracks. But after that 'Been Afraid' is another top song again which uses the variation in tempo mentioned earlier. Following that is 'Low Light Low Life' which instrumental wise would by my favourite. Again like 'Goodbye' it's a lil more general hip hop. 'Never Better' although it never really reaches a climax you feel like its building up the whole time which I think is credit to P.O.S.
Overall, this is one of those albums that I had to give a good rating because of some great tracks and the originality. All in all though, it's not all greatly to my liking. The tracks I don't enjoy are the ones that don't have enough melodic moments such as 'Get Smokes and 'Drumroll', but there are about six tracks from this I'd be happy to be played on repeat and a few more not far away.
Best Tracks: Purexed, Goodbye, Let it Rattle, Been Afraid, Low Life Low Life, Never Better.
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