Style: Vocal driven folk music with a healthy tinge of goth
Primary Emotions/Themes: A quirky album that has some unfortunate edits
Thoughts: I bought this record for one song. The Flooded Mausoleum is an incredible epic. It teeters on ambient for most of its nine minute duration. It is a slow, brooding, and dark depiction of an adventurer going through an unknown mausoleum, seeking out something... something not of this world. It is the most visual of the songs on Victory and Defeat and is a direction I would love to see the band explore some more. Easily my favorite part of the album. It was edited down to 1 minute from ten for the record.
This is the unfortunate state of records sometimes. They have limited time on their sides and decisions like this must be made... however I feel like this in particular was misleading. The track is still listed on the track list, and there is no information regarding that the song had been edited. If I had known that this record would have been an easy pass.
It's not that the rest of the album is bad per see, it's just different. It largely consists of songs that sound like circus tunes and are generally not something I would seek out on my own. That one song though was enough for me to overcome the rest of the record and make the leap.
It's a damn shame that the decisions were made regarding the track list on the record, and I wish that there were a few more tracks like The Flooded Mausoleum, but alas there are not. This record will likely not be part of my collection much longer, but live and learn.
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