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Unlike most of the relatively atmospheric Saturday Night Wrist, the opening title track, "Royal", and "Cmnd/Ctrl" rely as heavily on chunky riffs and screaming as melody, perhaps as a return to an earlier formula. "Prince" adds some cool dive-bombs to this old formula. "You've Seen The Butcher" balances soaring melody over a heavily syncopated riff, while "Beauty School" tries to combine a variety of radio-friendly melodic elements with at least some success. For my money, "Rocket Skates"**** is where the album really takes off. It's the most aggressive track so far, nearly prog-metal in its complexity, and Chino attacks it with gleeful war-whoops. "Risk"**** and "976-Evil"**** have slower tempos but better melodies, while the swelling sonics of the ballad "Sextape"**** hint at the atmospheric approach of Wrist. No track reaches the epic heights of the best material on the 2003 self-titled release, but since then their writing has been more consistent, so it's hard to complain.
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