Citizen veer from the path taken by many of their contemporaries and their more recent work — the trend to drift towards lighter, airier sounds and motifs — and boldly take the exact opposite route, delving into grimy, utterly sour and unnerving dissonance juxtaposed with beautifully atmospheric breaks of clarity. It's in songs like "Stain" and "Ten" that this effect is the most apparent, the former lodging a gorgeous, multi-textured chorus between the primal and abrasive discord that fills the rest of the song and the latter cycling between creeping, bass-driven verse lines and explosive bursts of energy.