I will admit there’s a definite lack of actual riffs here, yet I found the songwriting so easy to listen to and so enjoyable that for me, it’s still head and shoulders above overcomplicated, aggressively erratic stuff like Odious Mortem, Cephalic Carnage and yes even Between the Buried and Me.

And this is coming from someone who enjoys decpihering and learning complex albums, yet none of those bands have ever clicked with me (aside from a few CC tracks like Lucid Interval).