The musical style of funeral Doom does not need too much in-depth analysis. The limits are known, the sound the same and the feelings and emotions that these artists want to express all move in parallel lines. What makes an album, or a band 'good' depends a lot to each listener's disposal mostly in the hour of listening and -of course- if he likes these sounds or not. The problem is that the anti-conventionality and the standard juxtapositions of the 'inspiration' that lay here create illusions with characteristic ease .
What makes these Canadians special in their third album is that they focus in the creation of an ambient atmosphere. Mostly working as a veil behind the songs, they handle adequately sounds with any purpose of causation emotions like despair, melancholy and depression being achieved. And that is the positive view of their work. They fail in the guitar parts with the use of trite themes and the same goes to the generally monotonous voice that in the end gives birth to apathy. If this will be used as a music substratum for you while doing something else it works well but if you focus in the songs it becomes boring.
What made bands like THERGOTHON or ESOTERIC good was their inspiration and of course that they were the first. If you are still searching for things that seem like propagator of the above here is your paradise of despair and loneliness. And if some basic elements of Between Elation And Despair transformed or reincarnated in an ambient sonic depiction I guess the whole effect and result would be much better.