
Maybe I'm just getting old, but THE APPLESEED CAST 's latest output, Sagarmatha , features some of the most unintelligible vocals I've ever heard on record. This is not to say that I don't enjoy the said mouth-filled-with-marbles vocal stylings, but I think I prefer the off-key yelping of The End of the Ring Wars or the emo-tastic output that was Low Level Owl Vol. 1 & 2 (which, by the way, is an absolutely FANTASTIC 4 disc vinyl set... but I digress). Apparently, Sagarmatha was meant to be an entirely instrumental EP only [...]