The music is tight and beautiful rather than dark and crushing; contemplative and almost meditative rather than abysmal and disheartening. Nothing on this recording sounds like a novelty, or like something we have not heard before. It does, however, sound organic and larger-than-life, in contrast to many "bedroom funeral doom" acts who sound hollow, mechanical and synthetic.

Unfortunately for Ea, sounding "right" in an overcrowded sub-genre such as funeral doom is by no means enough nowadays. Listeners, especially the funeral doom veterans, need a challenging experience, something to blow them away -- and this album definitely does not deliver a mind blowing experience.

Ea's self-titled album is a good place to start for anybody who's curious about the magic and majestic qualities contained within the funeral doom sub-genre; funeral doom for beginners, if you will. An almost instrumental, classically-oriented, beautiful album, yet redundant in the same breath.