Round Eye’s songs are all over the map, to say the least. They refer to themselves as experimental freak punk, but the tracks aren’t that “out there” per se—mostly straight-forward timing with quirky vocals. Sometimes cowpunk, other times straight up rock’n’roll stompers. Their mid-tempo numbers seem to come off the best, to me at least. I presumed they’d be Canadian since it’s on Sudden Death, but apparently they’re from Shanghai. Could’ve fooled me. I left pleasantly surprised either way. –Steve Adamyk (Sudden Death, suddendeathrecords.com)