Drowned in Sound called the album "a complex and matured experimental punk record that is both ravishingly beautiful and jaw-droppingly massive in one fouler-than-foul swoop."[5]PopMatters wrote that "although a valiant effort, The Always Open Mouth is, more or less, an amalgam of separate ideas, none of which seem to pan out."[8]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Absolute Future"
1:06
2.
"Drowning the Old Hag"
2:54
3.
"Mouth"
3:32
4.
"Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party"
2:44
5.
"Ten Seconds in Los Angeles"
2:20
6.
"The Waiting Makes Me Curious"
4:48
7.
"High as a Horse"
2:37
8.
"Dog Sized Bird"
2:14
9.
"Complete and Utter Confusion..."
2:19
10.
"...As a Result of Signals Being Crossed"
4:02
11.
"My (Fucking) Deer Hunter"
4:11
12.
"Lycanthropy"
3:07
13.
"A Brief Tutorial in Bachanalia"
4:36
14.
"A Gift for Fiction"
2:19
15.
"Absolute Past"
3:07
Personnel
David Marion – lead vocals
Adam Fisher – lead guitar, clean vocals, keyboards, programming, piano, percussion
Zachary Hutchings – rhythm guitar, percussion
Michael Madruga – bass, backing vocals, percussion
Brandon Proff – drums, percussion, programming, layout and design