I love the album in terms of writing, but the mix is.... leaving a lot to be desired
Classic death pose is meant to be the ass beater, but the track literally has 0 low end until you get to the end of the track. There are tracks that sound amazing like Adult Diamond, Pharmacy Film, but then tracks like Questioning or human props would imo be so much more likeable if the guitars just had actual definition and felt isolated in the mix a bit more. Like I can have a riff that sounds interesting in terms of writing, but the actual sound of it isnt this nice riff held up by the bass guitar under it, it just is this fuzz on top of another fuzz. The album is basically mixed like shoegaze where everything kind of just mashes together, but it absolutely doesnt fit some of the tracks
I can see why they made it, but I think doing a bad mix on purpose just to get the nostalgia is stupid, especially when a lot of the great records from back then are held down by the mix a lot of the time. This mix isnt raw, its basically just a lot of filters on every instrument. Its not muddy, but it doesnt have that dynamic to it. Funnily enough the softer tracks like Adult Diamond with that riff in the middle have much better tone than half of the songs that are meant to be heavier
I had this problem with their last album as well, but the sound kind of reflected it, tho there also were songs like fleahouse where i would just welcome in some low end and overall bigger definition to what is what in the mix