This album, along with most of his post-Conspiracy output, suffers from the usual fatal flaw: writing with a drum machine and trying to construct albums by collaborating via e-mail with band members that live 1000 miles away. ProTools giveth and ProTools taketh away, I guess.
If Matt Thompson indeed actually plays drums on any of these tracks, he's just mindlessly parroting the drum tracks that have been written for him. I challenge anyone to listen to this album and tell me that a professional drummer actually concocted these boring beats. They're mind-numbing. Mikkey Dee would take a bullet before he put his name on an album with these drum tracks.
All this is ironic, because, unlike every other member of his band, his current drummer actually lives in Texas. Is it just laziness....or hubris...??? Beats me.
If you like chunky riffs, relatively mundane strong structures, nice solos, and scary stories, by all means, buy the album. If you're looking for the cutting edge, dynamic, avant-garde, and unpredictable leanings of Abigail, save your money. Voodoo is the only post-Conspiracy album that truly has the tiger by the tail.
KD only has so many albums left in him. I wish he'd truly let the mischief back in the mix.