musically, this is not bad, if a little boxy.

however, the macho, lad culturish singer is a very strong disincentive.

i liked this kind of music better when the singers had purple hair and wore eyeliner; this shift to looking like soccer players or, worse, business people, is deeply unsatisfying. and, there's a substantive, lyrical shift along with it that i'm just not interested in...

it's something that's happened across the rock music spectrum, so it was really just a matter of time before the bros ruined post-punk, too.