Melodies and chilling harmonies that collide with an otherworldly embrace of the psychedelic on 'Cheat the Gallows,' the band's debut release. Tracks off 'Cheat the Gallows' like 'Hydra' and'Gravest Show On Earth' are mammoth slabs of ominous guitars and sloth-like rhythms, everything united by Beatlesque harmonies. Other tracks, such as 'Superstar' and 'Blackball,' play withnancy-boy pomp and glitter rock, the kind of stuff that evidently has made Alicia Keys, of all people, a fan. The swirling, psychedelic, Barnum & Bailey zounds and Floydian romps into interstellar overdrive hover over the album like L.A. smog, giving every track a hazy and doped - but intoxicating - feeling.