This is an odd six-tracker. Primarily The Off Position deal in heavy melodic hardcore in the style of bands like Hondo Maclean or early Funeral For A Friend, yet scattered in and amongst the songs here are samples, loops, drum and bass and two tracks of general strangeness. And, to be honest, it just doesn’t fit. For example, the drum n bass of ‘Ritalin’ doesn’t really sit well next to the scream-a-thon that is ‘Something To Fight For’.
Which is a shame, because ‘Kin’ and ‘Work Shy‘ are two agressively brilliant songs. But when a band releases a six-track EP I don’t expect two of those songs to pass me by with a sense of bewilderment. Personally I think the band need to decide what style of music suits them best and stick to it – I feel they’re best at being a shouty screamo band and ditching the elctronics would be for the best. Either that or separate them out in two bands…