This is partially due to producer , who gives the album a bloodless, abrasive edge with his exacting production; each dynamic is pushed to the limit, leaving absolutely no subtleties in the music.
It may be the aural embodiment of the tortured lyrics, and therefore a supremely effective piece of performance art, but it also makes a difficult record to meet halfway.
Furthermore, they are lyrically and melodically superior to the songs on the debut, but their merits are obscured by 's black-and-white production, which is polarizing.
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But anyone willing to accept its sonic extremities will find to be a record of unusual power and purpose, one with few peers in its unsettling emotional honesty.
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