The quiet looming dread of storm clouds, billowing in the wind, thundering above. Your only escape is the TV telling you to take cover.

Weather has been one of my biggest fears for a while now, especially severe weather. When EAS alerts go off on my phone and the towns tornado sirens start to go off in unison, there's this immense dread that fills me every time. the sounds of the wind getting a bit stronger and rain starting to pick up don't necessarily scare me in the way a horror movie would but they rather sit with me, making me uncomfortable and filling me up with this overarching sense of panic through the duration of the storm . Especially for truly destructive storms there's a true feeling of helplessness behind it all, because most the time you just can’t escape it. It often best to just wait it out. This album is that wait. It calm but filled with a nagging feeling that things are going to pick up and get worse. However with no escape you have to wait it out.

This album isn’t scary in a literal sense but it builds up that childish fear in me of the destructive tendencies big storm have. Most of songs are drowned out in this noisy gloom. It makes me feel as if i can’t focus on what I'm supposed to, as I am distracted by the all noises of the storm, which helps keep the album feeling apprehensive. each song feels as if I'm treading cautiously unsure of i should be worried or not. Adding on to it by having the robotic voice talking about the potentially injury the coming storm will cause, isn't even that intense but it help build up this unnerving atmosphere. It's voice being inhuman sounding also help build this feeling of isolation from the world, its only you and the storm.

My biggest complaint has to be the track Mist. Mist feel completely out of place and kind of breaks the flow of the album. It's too triumphant. and just like whats it even going for? The last 2 tracks are also pretty positive sounding but i hear it as the storm coming to pass. Mist just doesn’t fit in, its too chipper for its own good. The more somber sleepy sound of the last two songs works much better. It how storms often feeling when they end, it like they're tired and going back to rest up for the next time it rains, and these songs help show that perfectly.

Overall it solid record but just doesn't leave much impact, i wish it just stuck with me a bit, because the atmosphere is nice and the idea is great but ends up being nothing more than nice background noise once its all over. I enjoyed it for sure, I just don't see myself coming back to all that much.

Best Track: Life (only really like it slightly more than all the other tracks though)

Worst Track: Mist(ruined the immersive feeling the album had, and just isn't anything noteworthy)

The final bosses dying breath. A rusted amalgamation of animatronic parts, theme park rides, blurry crts, broken speakers, and electronic toys. Falling apart as it grabs at you with it's final breath. It mocks you with sampled laughs and humiliating recordings of yourself, distorted to the point of being unrecognizable. It screeches and cracks, move so unpredictably. Pixels upon pixel flickering into horrid creations. 

I honestly don’t care much for this album. It’s super unique in a lot of ways and individuals parts of it are great, but in combination i find it to be a bit of mess. First off its too quiet for it own good, its sounds like throughout, that it sitting in front of me at somewhat of distance, while i think a album like this should drown you in its noises. I feel its such a silly complaint but it my review so I'm going to mention it. A lot of moments throughout would work so much better in my opinion if it stabbed into my ears rather then just yelling for my attention.

I described it as this monster and it definitely can be when all its pieces form cohesively, but its most often can be represented by little skittering creatures, once you seen a couple they lose any fear factor they've had and you get used to them. And that comparison goes farther then just intensity but also in general cohesiveness, a lot of the elements of each songs don’t really build up to anything. They have no chemistry and there just isn’t anything happening between them. Pixely synths here, thumping drum over there, honestly really annoying vocals over it all, and that it, that's most the songs, and it just doesn't work for me. it not low effort it just doesn’t grab me in the way the other Nero’s Day at Disneyland projects do. When the instrumentals are able to build into something i do find them to be enjoyable but that's a rare occasion.

In between songs there's definitely whiplash, they often start abruptly so they don't build into each other at all. Most of the time that shouldn't be necessary but i feel i could've really help this album if it flowed better between tracks.

Finally, I'm really sorry but the vocals SUCK (imo). i don't know how to properly explain my reasoning, but the way they are sung and added in just sound really annoying and ends giving the album this crappy Hazbin Hotel/ cringe 2010s steampunk aesthetic (Idk, I've never really liked steampunk but i feel that it was a particularly awful time for the aesthetic) sound that i just don't vibe with. The vocals kind of sound tinny, like there coming from old timey speakers, kind of reminiscence of alastor's vocal effect and all other 20's and 30's inspired media and characters.

I think the worst thing an album can do is leave pretty much no impression, neither a “That was terrible” or a “HOLY SHIT’ but just a “That was fine”. But Sadly that just how i feel about this album, it's just fine. That’s all, for something as experimental as this I'm happy it was able to be enjoyable on occasion and being able to the see improvement of Lauren's music in future releases is awesome. However the album itself, Meh.

Best Track: Glass ceiling cabaret (the vocal are actually really well done on this one)

Worst Track: Moonage Daydream (idk thought it was kind-of boring)

As of the 30 of May, 2026 at 01:28am, i have lost access to my RateYourMusic account and have received a permanent suspension. As of now I'm a little pissy about it but, i decided that it's going to be for the best and i think it will help me seek out music I'm truly interested in on my own. To help catalog my musical journey ill be using Tumblr, as my goat @galacticpiledriver also uses Tumblr for music reviews and such. I don't think I'll write as much as him, but as my current choice study I'm majoring in is journalism, writing my thoughts out on what I'm listening to can help me improve my skill but also will let me just kind of blabber about music i like. Anyways, this is pretty much only for me but if anyone ends up checking my page out, stick around and chat with me. I love music and love talking about it with people when i get the chance to.

Also I might just blog about life stuff, other things I'm into, or about my photography/Collages (I Make Digital Collages). It's my page so i'll add whatever i want :P