Rather than opting for one musical style, the album alternates between hard, razor-sharp, creepy-crawly punk rock with echo-like wolf howls to textural synthesizer soundtracks filled with strange noises.
He says that he likes it because it isn't some kind of creepy-crawly bug, it's more like a proper animal.
In the first decades of the 20th century, familiars are identified as niggets, which are creepy-crawly things that witches kept all over them.
This is a creepy-crawly guillotine motion and it is being introduced in circumstances that, by any reasonable standards, do not warrant it.