COOKIE MONSTER

I rather enjoyed Easterica. That's interesting, since (from what I have read), this musician is something of a non-musician- someone who makes music without recording anything. In this case, it's like hearing a fancy Guitar Pro file. The guitar sounds terrible, the drums sound terrible, and the compositions are only okay. Everything is largely repetitive- this is not progressive music in any sense. The drum samples lack the variance to render this a convincing project. The lack of human dynamics is the bane of this EP.

"Tea Party" This is a jam with potential marred by an overly thick sound. The drums suffer from a mechanical repetitiveness. Worst of all, there is no melody to save it, and it fades out without purpose.

"Cookie Monster" The electronic sounds offer some variety, but the composition doesn't. The guitar is still terribly muddy and the drums may as well not even be there. The beastly growl is rather cool, and so is the theme, but the track fails to maintain interest.

"13th" Again, not a bad idea here, but the sounds render the composition completely unbelievable. It is heavy, but unconvincingly so.

"Stagnation" The album closes with what could have been a promising instrumental. The potential is certainly there, but the humanity is not.