Habits is the synthesizer/sample based musical vision of Los Angeles based artist Dustin M Krapes. Currently, Habits’s revolving cast of live and recording collaborators includes professional wrestling hall-of-famer Dithy Ramb on drums, and vegan taxidermy specialist Gabriel Armenta on bass. Musically, Habits combines driving rhythms, and a psychedelic collage of otherworldly synths as the sonic backdrop to Dustin’s lofty metaphysical themed lyrics, typically delivered in a lazily confrontational speak-sing style of crooning...

Unselves in Arrival is an album that grows on you the more you listen to it. However, by the time you've actually gotten used to the style and started to dig the general vibe, you're already bored of the sound.

For a brief blast - an album to listen to for a couple of weeks and then put to one side and totally forget about - this isn't half bad, just don't expect it to still be fresh interesting after a handful of listens.

The album contains 10 tracks (37 min). And if I were trying to describe the band's sound to the uninitiated, I'd have to say they're like a modern, poor man's Gorillaz.

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Nick Smithson