WORST CASE SCENARIO

dEUS' debut is the only one of their releases that could be thrown into a genre in PA, the Avant-Prog genre, the music in here is absolutely weird, unusual and creative, and that's the only reason this album reaches the 3 star rating, because when talking about quality and entertainment, this failsa bit.

After the intro, a weird, piercing violin kicks in, "Suds & Soda", it slowly builds into the greatest song in the album, the weird constant vocals, shouting "Friday!" all along the song, at different times in the song structure is pure genius, and I think it's very creative, also, the creepiest voices come in the cacophony after the chorus are great.

"Morticiachair" is another very imaginative moment, the beginning is very unusual and builds into a very catchy song, really wonderful. The Frank Zappa influence is very clear here, with the eccentric touch to the music and use of some unusual instruments, in fact "W.C.S." contains a sample from Zappa's "Little Umbrellas".

The album has some more great moments, "Right As Rain" is my personal favorite, a creepy, dark ballad, really beautiful; "Secret Hell" is one more creepy slow song and "Mute" is very much alike "Suds & Soda", with crazy screams during the chorus and unusual vocal melodies during the verses, however, the rest of the album is quite uninspired, a lot of "dead" music, where nothing really happens, though it does flow quite nicely, you don't get the feeling you have just listened to a great album, this is my main problem with this, the lack of consistency and cohesion ruins what could have been one great album, full of wonderful ideas and originality.

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