1. Collapse
2. Typical
3. After We Have Left Our Homes
4. Noticed **
5. With­out It **
6. Polite
7. Stare at the Sun
8. Obsolete **
9. Break the Same
10. You Are Mine **
11. Picture
12. Stall out

**Clear Favorites

The piano and drums are fea­tured heav­ily through­out the tracks, though I use ‘heavily’ in a loose sense. What I mean to say is they are the fea­tured instru­ments through­out their debut album. The whole thing tends to remind me of a cyber­punk film nóir (some­one tell me if I used the wrong char­ac­ter there) Adding to the point is the fact that many of the tracks don’t even fea­ture singing; they’re purely instrumental.

One thing that can start to grate on you is the fact that the singer sounds the exact same in every song where he does sing. Some people may not mind or even notice this, but for people like me who have a hor­ri­ble habit of skip­ping artists for variation… well it gets sort of old. Like I said, you need to be in the mood to listen to this one.

As an aside, I almost favorite-​ed the second track “Typical” as it is a fairly solid track but iron­i­cally, I found it rather typical-​sounding in and of itself. It’s a good track, but just didn’t make the cut for me.

It’s a fairly laid-​back album and you really need to be in the mood to listen to it. I sug­gest either dri­ving your car around metropoli (what the hell is the mul­ti­ple for metrop­o­lis?) in car com­mer­cials, or when you oth­er­wise need to be very calm and reflec­tive. I’m glad I have the album, but only for cer­tain tracks. Hell, three don’t even qual­ify as tracks in my book. Being all under 1:30 they’re just long inter­ludes as far as I’m concerned.

6/10