Diving headlong into this rather wonderful second full-length from SeeYouSpaceCowboy is a dizzying experience. Crushing riffs and hectic mathcore dynamics are likely to be the first things that strike you. Unless, that is, you peruse the tracklist and note convoluted titles like Melodrama Between Two Entirely Bored Individuals or Life As A Soap Opera Plot, 26 Years Running. With this suggestion of a stylistic callback to ‘00s emo, you might be more prepared for the sugar-rush choruses that somehow bubble up amidst the sonic carnage. Some tunes on The Romance Of Affliction bring to mind the classic video for Walk This Way, only with The Dillinger Escape Plan and Fall Out Boy replacing Aerosmith and Run‑D.M.C. There might be a sense of sassy irreverence in thi...