This is the third album from Fred Argir that I've reviewed. Like the others it is a good, but not great release. It suffers from a "too much music without enough variety" problem that was present on the other two. In a lot of ways, the comparisons end there.

Those other albums were more mainstream singer-songwriter rock releases. This lands more into 80s zones and is more electronic and techno based. It also has a tendency to feel unfinished. It seems like a lot of these songs are more like demos that could be turned into something great, but instead were just abandoned as "good enough" and never really developed.

There are exceptions, but that really seems to be the case on much of this set. And, when I say the songs are "good enough," they are literally there - not bad, but not great. The music also has a tendency to get into some long, often aimless jams at the end that could be cut. Still, as I said everything here works reasonably well. This would have just been a much stronger release with more effort put into really getting these songs feeling more "finished" and perhaps dropping three or four from the album. Of the three sets from Argir that I've heard, this is the most inventive, but also the weakest of the bunch. 

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Percussive vibes that seem to be electronic start the song. Eventually a more complete arrangement rises upward from there and some crunchy guitar is heard amidst driving electronic concepts. It drops to moody 80s styled sounds for the entrance of the vocals. It does get more rocking as it builds later, but that moody vibe remains.