Wet from Birth. I quite dig it. It's not another Danse Macabre, but I think fans of that album will find it fits perfectly as the next iteration in their oeuvre. It's less different from Danse Macabre than Danse Macabre was from Blank-Wave Arcade (or that Blank-Wave Arcade was from Media), and yet...it's still a growth...a step forward...it's not a "difficult sophomore release" by any measure.

The first song has a nice swagger that I don't ever remember hearing before. The last track sounds like it's got a few orchestral stabs, giving it a "bigger" sound.

Oh, and they didn't "turn metal", as I predicted they would. Which is probably a good thing to some of you folks.