The rest of the album's seven tracks are a tad uneven but show Honkeyball are willing to take the creative risks necessary to avoid becoming a one-trick pony. "Outpatient" is the most adventurous, with jagged discord bleeding into a warped sort of melody and finally into a bluster of thick power-chord certainty. And though Tsiaras may try a little too hard to make the lyrics rhyme, he rousts a few compelling images -- most notably on "Split," a short story with as much thematic tension as the music, claustrophobic and paranoid and charged with an uncanny, formless displacement.

-- Carly Carioli