"Sing Along Songs" is rather special in that it blends a combination of opposite-spectrum music together as one, including opera, swing music, and metal. This conjures two thoughts: it's metal, swing music, and opera, but on the other hand, it's metal, swing music, and opera. Anticlimactic, I know. I guess each side brings a suitable cut of bacon home, like the female soprano vocalist, whom is absolutely fantastic, whereas her male counterpart does a bang-up job as well; both singers are versatile and fitting for these strange landscapes. There really isn't anything cynical to add about the song structures, because any group that can mend so many atypical identities into a single entity and avoid a total head-on collision altogether deserves a proper salute, but that doesn't change the fact it's a portable headache on plastic. There's just so many ideas smashing together that it does, in fact, become very difficult to understand what in the blue hell is going on. At times the record is cool, but at other intervals the band shoots, rapes, stabs, punches, kicks, immolates, skins, butchers, and pisses on the dead horse again and again and again.

I'm afraid there is such a thing as "too crazy" for the adventurer's tongue, so to speak. It's clear they get a little caught up in the web from tangling everything together: some choruses get messy, vocals become tied, brass instruments sporadically fire…it quickly becomes an aftermath between a tornado and a shed. Also, where are the riffs? What about the passion? A lot of this stuff seems very uninspired and oddly bland once the bizarre predictability settles in, making the record plain 'ol boring after ten minutes. It's no display of irony that the album's finest moments shine when the group rests on a steady idea instead of throwing a wild orgy of everything imaginable together, like the menacing riffing on "A Rancid Romance" or the trumpet section towards the end of "Lucy Fears the Morning Star." The self-proclaimed masters of "riot-opera" proudly demonstrate a special mixture of metal, opera, brass instruments, and 30s swing music among different musical situations that is so individualistic you might feel this is sheer brilliance…or complete crap, whichever sounds better.