Featuring repetive punk rock tunes with the same guitar and drum tunes, The Oval Portrait doesn't offer much creativity in any of their tracks. The problem is that with the exception of 2 Gems, every other track features the same heavy guitar theme with screaming vocals. Not much variety to be found here. Check out track 4 and 8, but other than that, leave this one and move on.

1. Heavy, dark tones mixed in with the usual guitar riffs. 2. Catchy opening guitar intro opens into nearly the exactly same theme of previous track 3. More catchy guitar opens into reptitive (although decent) lyrics; strange closing at 1:35 *4. Quiet intro leads to hard guitar with great drums - definiately more instrumental. 5. Immediate opening features an onslaught of vocals and instrumentals. off-beat 6.(FCC) Up-beat hard guitar mixes with decent lyrics, 1:20 has it really mix it up 7. Mystery riff builds up to a great piece, very smooth... very short though (1:30) 8. Immediately catchy tune to loud drums, great integration of the other instruments, slower, more mellow tune 9. Very low, soft beginning, definite dark tones; never really explodes; has good buildups 10.Seems like a rehash of track 3, nothing much to say 11. Fast paced, heavy guitar sound gives way to heavy goth-esque 12. Typical heavy guitar featured in nearly every other track 13. Slow bass heavy intro with good guitar leads to an explostion not unlike a great deal of the previous tracks, slowly speeds up and smooths out toward the end.

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