The music of the individual songs extends this approach, which I'd describe as "subversive" if that word didn't carry with it a whole host of unhelpful associations. What happens, anyhow, is that the songs seem to avoid focusing any longer than they absolutely have to on any one particular feeling, or mood, or shade. They aren't manipulative, like pop songs are; they aren't assaultive, like all my metal buddies; they aren't mournful, or wistful, or really particularly self-involved in any way. The best word I could come up with this morning was lonely, and the more I listen to the album the more fitting it seems. If you can divorce "lonely" from the imagery that usually comes bundles with it - a person by himself in a room, etc. - and isolate the feeling from its given attributed causes, then I think you'll be closer to understanding OnOffOn than you might otherwise be.