The Tree Sleepers may sound like an eco-loving salvation group determined to halt any handshakes over protected lands; but they are in fact, much scarier than that.

Darker Fate opens the album with a faint whimper from the unorthodox. Flurried guitar and banjo hooks are lost through over-written, and over-complicated instrumentation. It’s a nonsensical clamber of sounds, each battling for the fore and creating an overall racket. Cold Blooded is equally criminal of over-playing as its predecessor. Each note feels as if it were decided spontaneously – on the spot. You wouldn’t mind too if it helps you groove along to it, but the casual, un-arranged nature of the music makes it difficult.

21 Hookers & An Ounce Of Coke (the single from the album) is the first instance of the music developing some semblance of shape; producing a sound which represents the band far better. A distinguishable chorus rescues this track from the wreckage in which the others’ sink. The band proclaim on Twitter their music is a mixture of “rock, funk and ska, with a dash of gypsy.” Quite the mouthful – and quite the objective when it comes to arranging the music. While songs like True Fiction, Getting Stupid & Delirium Trembles further blur the lines of genre, the brief glimpses of brass make for a welcome tone and also help the listener grasp the true sound of The Tree Sleepers.

With the rise of home-production; enabling many to accustom themselves with a greater level of composing, it boggles the mind upon hearing this attempt at a full-length. ‘Say Yes To Everything’ falls firmly in the amateur category; poor production, weak lead vocals, sloppy songs and a lack of an original theme or message makes it impossibile to connect with it in any meaningful way. It’s music for turning down the dial.