If you've managed to stick it out this long, you will have noticed that Project Monotony is a very deliberate and orderly world unto itself. The quiet spaces between songs are kept to a minimum, the tempo remains at a constant, and the melodies could be cut from any one song and pasted into any other with no harm done. Or rather, additional harm. Listening to this EP is sort of revelatory. If nothing else, it's an illustration of just how much of a high-wire act songwriting can be.
Every turn is fraught with hazards and unseen opportunities to make the wrong decision.
A trip-up here and there can be overlooked if the overall result works. But, if you're a little bit off with the pacing, a little off with the mixing, if your lyrics are wanting, and the melodies fail to stick, you're not left with a whole lot. Still, as they did in Braid, Damon Atkinson, Todd Bell, and Robert Nanna have shown fugitive moments of potential. But also like Braid, they utterly fail to make a convincing musical argument for themselves and seem destined to be another also-ran kind of band that people liked to watch live.