As The Roots Undo is a surprising mix of frantic, chaotic modern hardcore (think ORCHID and PAGE 99 ), crusty hardcore blitz (there were more than a few times when this reminded me of the awesome old bay area band FILTH ), metalcore crunch, sprawling and dynamic post-rock, wonderfully weird and complex prog rock, jangly indie pop, and weird, ambient electronic stuff. You would think that this would sound schizophrenic and cluttered, but it's actually really cohesive and unique how the band blends all of this together. Intense and dramatic and emotional, there are mighty Neurosis/Isis style dirges that turn into weird clean guitar breaks, an even mix of intense, brutal vocals and distinctive high-quality melodic singing, spoken word parts with spacey electronic blurt, cyclone powerviolence / grindcore blasts that fragments into melodic, awkward but freaking awesome prog-pop, and epic City Of Caterpillar / Godspeed You Black Emporer -style sprawl. We're kicking ourselves for not checking this out sooner. It's awesome! And it's packaged in one of the coolest digipacks we have ever seen, a six panel digi with killer wraparound artwork printed in bold metallics and earth tones, with a multipage booklet bound into the inside of the digipack, and closed with a foldover tab - freaking beautiful. We were expecting another standard modern hardcore album, and what we got is a genre-defying underground masterpiece...we hate to gush, but this has us totally stoked, and is one of our favorite new albums!