I usually dont go in for the style either. Repeat listens in it are all the more rare. The lyrics are what pulled me in to this one, followed by the use of (gasp) dynamics (not used to this w/ this genre), and also listening to it in completion was key.
This one needs to be heard as an album, as far as I'm concerned. I tried skipping around and it lost some of its magic. I do hear alot of genres here though, maybe even a bit of a Pinback clean tone in places, if a bit more nasal. Guitars have a kind of Tool vibe in the soft passages, if you sped up the average Tool riff just a bit.
Oh and I'm listening to it yet again...with the REL T3 subwoofer dialed in:prettyprincess: