I believe most of those elements are actually carried over from Suffering Hour, which was produced and structured in a very messy manner, but was otherwise a normal, wild and unrestrained thrash album with fast tempos, brutal lyricism and Slayer-like passages aplenty. By contrast, this thing is MESSY, very much so, with desperate riffs of many moods and tempos being interspersed with dirty guitar licks, soft balladic sections, whammy bar tricks, and some genuinely bizarre notation (see "Terrified" for an immediate display of what I'm talking about), all while Ken Nardi, misguided amateur that he is, jumps between balladic softness and abhorrent faux-Schuldiner yowls with striking frequency and little regard for maintaining any constant flow or emotion. To my knowledge, tech-thrash generally prides itself not just on technique, but on being tight as fuck, with every riff, harmony and arpeggio executed with mathematical precision to achieve this surgical sound that Coroner and Watchtower are known for elevating into an art form. The fundamental flaw of Anacrusis's sound is still there, it was always there, but its good points frequently push it up to a level of quality that is on the cusp of being genuinely good, particularly because of the truly unique sound on display here. In fact, it boasts a sound that has very unique draws, and it brings with it a degree of memorability, along with a few strengths that are entirely its own. Reason, their second album, and the one directly preceding the two mentioned above, is not a good album. Those were my thoughts on Anacrusis, some time having passed after hearing their last two albums - Manic Impressions and Screams And Whispers. Maybe they were somewhat better during their earlier years." Maybe my initial negative impression of this band can be attributed simply to not digging deep enough.
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