This song, this whole album, is a trip. And judging from this music video, the live show leans into all the circus / carnival motifs spread across the whole album; and it looks like a freakin' blast, I wish I had known about this guy back in 2019.

It's funny that in the last song I posted I was basically complaining about eclecticism run amok, in the style of music of the mid-2000's, which this album is severely guilty of. But in this case, the hyper-active variety of instrumentation is in support of a general theatricality that is sustained consistently from the first song (Sideshow, which is an excellent song and maybe better than this song I'm posting now) to the last song.

That doesn't mean the album is perfect, no, I think the first half (up to Sometimes) is really strong, while the back half of the album loses me pretty quickly with silly songs and others bordering on ballads. A song like Shadows is just too much of a joke, more suitable to a Weird Al Yankovic album than as a companion to the first half of this album. But, that's okay, I'm not going to fault Nick Lutsko for being too creative, that would be unfair.