Album Review: Mind Over Matter - This Way To Elsewhere

We've had eight years to get to know Mind Over Matter. It's surprising, then, that so little progress has been made. While contemporaries Horrorshow and Spit Syndicate have looked outside themselves for inspiration, our hosts have turned inward. They've found a formula and perfected it. The result is far from unpleasant: tight beats, consistent rhyme schemes, and accessible, melodic hooks. Real Life and What They Say are cases in point. Refining the same structure for three albums means this record is crisp and professional, but it also means that it can be a little exhausting.