Sink your teeth in. That is literally what I did when I got my hands on the newly released album “Sink Your Teeth In” by Pretty Ugly. I sunk my teeth in and have had this four track EP on repeat every night while doing homework this last week and still can’t get enough of it.

The local Colorado duo of Daytona and Timeline make up Pretty Ugly. I remember first hearing some of Daytona’s tracks two summers ago and not being overly impressed, but he has grown immensely as a producer and DJ since then. Almost everything he has put out in the last year definitely sounds more like a top 10 dubstep producer than just another kid messing around with Ableton and are definitely on rotation in my home library.

Not being from Grand Junction like Daytona, Timeline is a bit newer to me, so I am not familiar with his older work, but I especially enjoy his lyrical contributions and different flavor he gives to Daytona’s sound.

The first track, which is also the first single and title track, has been fairing very well on Beatport’s Top 100 DubstepRelease chart, topping out at No. 6 last week, at least from what I saw. It has a slow tempo with a glitch sound and a nice piano melody in the intro and progresses into slow heavy wobbles, but never does have a ‘drop’ like many chart-topping songs. Instead, what makes this track stand out is Timeline’s rapping and Daytona’s singing. While they may only fill about one minute out of the five minute song, they give it that extra component to make it stand out from the rest.

The next track, “Escape The Hoard,” is definitely the heaviest track on the album. The intro is a bit faster with chopped-up female vocal samples that Daytona and Timeling use different variations of in several of their tracks. This song comes with a drop that reminds me of a fight scene from a zombie apocalypse. As the album has a zombie theme, this is only appropriate.

“Contamination” is the next track, and it carries through with the grim sound of an apocalypse with the intro giving off the feeling of being in an abandoned wasteland. It has the similar vocal samples as “Escape The Hoard,” and, although not quite as heavy, it still has a punishing sound that would give anyone motivation in a zombie fight.

The finale of the album, “As The World Burns,” has a happier synth sound than anywhere else in the album and other components of the song also make it feel a bit happier than the grim feel of the rest of the EP. But it is still a bit eerie and has that same heavy sound as the other tracks do.

Overall, it is a great album to play from beginning to end as it listens sort of like a story. From explanations of our faults spelled out in the first track to the rough bass lines in the middle and the happier melodies at the end, it is a journey through what could be a zombie apocalypse.