Yeah, so Mythology looks a little different with the hindsight of Summer Sucks. There is actually some pretty intricate riffage in here, and a decided contrast between metal and gentleness that I think reaches a much maturer expression in the latter work. "Rise of Her Rain" is such a mixed bag, though. It's just so.. jazzy for the first bit.

Oh but the jazziness works, imho! "Hidden in the Trees" is also plenty jazzy, if not jazzier, which gets me ready for what "Rise" will do!

There's a lot more repetition on this album, I find. Shorter songs with more repetition. On Summer Sucks a song like "Perfection" would only be a single movement, somewhere in "Pig Bruiser" or "Fountain of Mab". But on Mythology it stands alone. I think that is a sign of a debut album.

The compositions certainly seem restrained here. I'm a bassist, of course, so bass is what I pay attention to, and while the grooves here aren't too prominent, they do still feel like solid anchors for the songs, like the bass may have been written first. I can appreciate that, these guys seem like a real bass-driven band to me.