‘Ain’t No Thief’ is easily the best track, if you’d like a quick introduction.

This is probably the oddest album in Mamaleek’s discography, which is pretty much incomparable to anyone else even without ‘Via Dolorosa’. Discogs lists twelve subgenres mixed on this record, though that seems somewhat contrived.

Having started with very noisy and slightly jazzy experimental black metal and having gone through a mix of said metal with trip-hop on ‘Kurdaitcha’, Mamaleek landed on this album of evocative guitar ballads. However, they never for a minute abandoned the unmistakable atmosphere of their sound and the desperation of the black-metal-infused vocal.