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As someone who wants to encourage the prevalence of instrumental technical metal, I’m glad Loincloth finally released a full album. I enjoy their take on the genre theoretically, but I was actually disappointed by the sense that nothing on this record actually resolves. The utter fragmentation of technical music can lead to incredibly interesting and intricate experiments, but ‘tension and release’ is still the absolute bottom line in music—and we come nowhere close to that here until one of the last tracks. At that point, it’s nearly anticlimactic.
Regardless, this will make for decent passive listening for the scatterbrained (like me).