Didn't find a thread on this, so thought I'd start one myself. Not sure what to make of the new release yet. There is stuff on it I absolutely love, stuff I'm perplexed by, and stuff that I'm not sure I'll ever get into, lol. It just shows the variety of material, I suppose, that this band is capable of. I love the production on it, and how each song flows almost seamlessly into the next. The song-writing is strong and confident, and Courtney's lyric writing is as intriguing as ever.
For some reason, possibly based on the live shows of theirs that I have recently seen, where I really liked every new song that I heard, I was expecting to love every track on this album. Not quite the case, but again I applaud the way they follow their creative muses, and attack every track with an imaginative fury. Perhaps, for me at least, they will never make an album that works to my personal tastes, from top to bottom. That's okay though, as they are certainly one of the most fresh, innovative and ferociously uncompromising young prog bands out there. And they are so good live, too.
Curious on others's thoughts.
neil
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