All over the place. Can’t decide how much of it wants to be tribal industrial or electronic dance and when or where. There’s no pattern here and it isn’t schizophrenic in a way that’s interesting because it never goes beyond those industrial and electro traits for anything new to reveal itself during the course of this indulgent 77-minute album (longer if you have the shoehorned “artsy” 20-minute drone track in the middle). Shaking the Habitual just has no pacing and doesn’t know where it’s trying to get you or how. Never gets off the ground or builds up to anything.

This album does have its moments and sets up a bit of an atmosphere, but those moments rarely comprise a whole song and it changes structure too much to let the atmosphere sink in, or even worse, their attempts at extending every song to a long running time for the sake of building an atmosphere often run the risk of just being tiring. All just a bit too boring for an album trying so hard to be adventurous.

Still, +0.5 for the attempt. They have a sound here with the industrial rhythms and Karin Dreijer’s witch-like voice haunting the soundscape, they just need to calm the hell down and figure out how to properly apply it. And to also keep in mind that sometimes less is more.