Lawson is the duo's vocalist, a fact that is hard to appreciate on this album. The mixing/engineering left the album with muddy vocals all but drowned by the music. I honestly cannot tell you anything about the lyrics - I couldn't hear them. The song titles left me really wanting to know what was going on. The songs are either incredibly clever or simply pretentious. I'm hoping for clever. I was going to only give a couple of titles, but they're mostly really cute, so you're getting the best bunch as a list (I'm a sucker for quality wordplay): "Just Pick a Dead End and Chill Out Till You Die," "Clark Can't,” "Dear God, This Parachute is a Knapsack," "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," and "Dawg... You Watch Smallville?" As you can see, I really wanted to hear the lyrics.

 

Back to the music, as that was the highlight of this album. "Symphony for the Righteous Destruction of Humanity" is one of two potential singles. The mix of classical riffs and rhythm was pretty catchy, and made me wish the tune was longer than two and a half minutes.

 

"Dear God, This Parachute is a Knapsack" is the most experimental of all the tunes, as Lawson filled the first half of the tune with very strong rhythm strumming. Very strong. The second half returned to the duo's general "tempo-change/rhythm and classical guitar mix" sound.

 

The other potential single, "Sorry: The Musical" is probably the most "alternative" sounding of the album, but had the right mix of radio-friendly sound and original Two Knights sound to find a broad audience.

 

All told, I imagine that in the hands of an experienced engineer, this album could really be something interesting that I'd wholeheartedly recommend to fans of alternative/punk bands. The drowned, muddy vocals really kept me from being able to do that, however. With their style and sound established, these guys have potential, and I do hope we hear more from them in the future.