Photographs As Memories

“With no real songs to speak of, Eyeless in Gaza's debut was inundated with an erratic pop sensibility and a frustrating non-style-over-substance sense of work ethic. Only the occasional success hinted of things to come. The one-two punch of Speech Rapid Fire and John of Patmos would go on to stand up well against anything the band later released, the former a mangled, melancholic take on '80s {synth pop} and the latter squealing off in far too many directions to suggest a well-adjusted mindset and using both pre-IDM beat mechanics and structureless Arkestra anti-music to deconstruct the ubiquitous mid-album ballad”~ Dean Carlson, All Music Guide