This album is anything but optimistic, a rather unrelentingly dark and sometimes bluntly turgid record. Darker chords and slower tempos prevail, the lyrical content spins on depression, anger, bitterness, and self-destruction but it is not one-dimensional at all, buoyed by mournful strings and stylistic curveballs.
File under: Alternative Rock/Label: MOV, A&M Records/Original Release Year: 1995