EWIAN is a Dream-Noise/Alternative/Post-Noise band; an international collaboration between its members.  Their energetic "wall of sound" includes distorted piano, noisy guitars, bittersweet vocal melodies and solemn string passages.  This is their first full-length album, and contains ten tracks.

"My Dear Dead Memory" leads off the album.  It's a light, airy and unassuming song, with a partially distorted guitar that leaves a ringing quality to its notes.  Vocally the impact is keep to a minimum with a narrow range and softly sung notes.  The title track, "Good Old Underground," has a similar pace and instrumentation.  The guitar reaches into a higher range and really draws out some nice moments of melody throughout.  "Escape" begins with piano and bass, pushing a more frail sound into the picture.  Call me crazy, but I am still hearing a common theme of despondence at times that is just enough of a presence not to through in some talk of "Doom" with this stound.  "The Last Poem" begins in a similar fashion, and I daresay I have yet to hear much of a meter change from track to track.  In addition, there is a common one-two approach to the chord progressions which seem to go from major to minor and back again.  "Black Star" is the first song that stretches out a little bit with a more spirited approach and, aptly, more "noise."  Heavily loaded vibrato notes clang and ring over a richer, fuller instrumentation, and perhaps more positivity.  "Zampano" is driven more by percussion and some vocal harmonies, while "We Are Not Afraid to Die" is a more riff driven number.  Still, that gentle, back-in-forth sway just permeates much of how these songs are composed.  At times, I feel a vibe of U2 at their more tender side.  "When I Was Dead" closes out the album.  Bells provide a feathery opening, before we hear our first really extended passage of atmosphere.  The entire piece reminds me of the content of an amiable day dream.

Overall I found my listening experience to be pleasant, just not very challenging or exciting, which I suppose is the point of the style to some degree.  Still, I found the album as a whole too homogeneous its composition, and predictable from track to track.