I'm glad I looked into this album a little bit before writing anything, because I almost made a fool of myself by calling this 2000s midwest emo (the album erroneously showed as 2006 in my player). I stand by what I commented to my partner, though, which is that I think it's wrong for any genre but punk to seemingly portray an inability to sing as a positive, because I refuse to try to get past "I never attempted to learn breath control" in order to try to listen to an album. The lineage here with Minutemen is worth a couple of points, I guess, but I did not find this an enjoyable experience.