For two tracks, Beautified For Sound is excellent. "The Great Fantastic" opens with an intro that sounds oddly like "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'", then evolves into madly danceable indie-pop, while the Troggs-y rock of "Hang On Sloppy" wouldn't sound out of place on a "Garage Rock of the 1960s" compilation.

Unfortunately, the material that follows these tracks is essentially catchy but forgettable filler. There's a line between making listeners tap their toes and writing hooks that stick in their heads; "The Great Fantastic" and "Hang On Sloppy" launch themselves over that line, but nothing else on Beautified In Sound comes close to crossing it. Tracks such as "A Sexy Romp" and "Naughty Frightened" have a lot of potential; the former, for example, has a very danceable riff as its center, while the latter has a nice, laid-back vibe that many bands would kill for. However, rather than developing those melodic ideas into fully fleshed-out songs, head Superstar Arch Slang seems content to coast; he never allows the songs to grow beyond their instrumentation. The compositions are solid, but the achievement is lessened when nothing is done to explore or expand on them. Until they do that, Masked Superstar will be a band with two strong songs and fourteen very bland ones.