Sicboy plot a course of alternative metal riffs with a splash of emo and a touch electronics on this, their Attack Records debut. Using a slightly downbeat approach they craft music that has faint traces of bands like the Deftones, finger eleven and Incubus, but with a seemingly more depressed, more tormented viewpoint.

Sounding a bit like Taproot's Stephen Richards and at other times like Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kedis, band vocalist John Tate slowly croons his parts like an almost painful moan, using a detached strain of eerie melody that is knotted by gritty bursts of anger and energy. Meanwhile, scratchy guitars scour the surface clean with fairly straight forward riffs that seem to be somewhat lost in the mix when compared to the persistent rumble of the generously downtuned bass, which along with the whip crack like percussion, forms the main means of transportation for the groups momentum and direction.

A few interesting ideas are tackled with the occasional slice of a turntable and a few samples thrown in or some tripped out acoustic melodies, but as a whole the group feel quite raw and their songs as a whole almost seem to disintegrate as they progress on. It's hard to tell whether its the mix of the disc or the bands song writing as a whole, but the tracks fail to capture any real cognition and instead sound sloppy and uninspired, almost meandering without ever creating any dynamics strong enough to throw the listener off guard. Its not so much that Sicboy are a bad band though, because overall this CD is quite pleasant to listen to. It just seems that the musical bond between the band members could be a lot stronger. Artificial flavors or not, the band do manage to create a unique taste on this disc, unfortunately its not one that is delectable enough to entice the listener to drink to the last drop.