![]() When not struggling too hard to compensate for mediocre tunes, Spencer's howls are compelling, and his slicing guitar cuts through nicely. This doesn't mean the dense guitar bombs of "Last Man Standing", the stair-climbing throb of "This Stops at the River", or the strident roar of "Only Pain" aren't entertaining. And the band seems uninterested in pushing its songwriting forward, sticking to familiar patterns that are well executed but wholly predictable. The problem is that this style holds no surprises 18 years after Unsane first coined it. The trio's patented sound- tightly wound punk-metal featuring slashing guitars, muscle-bound rhythms, and the throat-stripping screams of Chris Spencer- remains intact, albeit in slicker form. The same goes for Visqueen, Unsane's first album for Mike Patton's Ipecac label.
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