Album Rating: 4.5

Goddamn I didn’t think this would live up to the original but I was dumbstruck as I corny as that might sound

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I think it's really cool that non-fans seem to be reacting pretty positively to this album... but goddamn this album is soooooooo fucking rewarding having listened to the OG album a million times throughout my life



I could not be happier with the way this thing turned out man, over the fucking moon with this

Album Rating: 4.0

I always found this band to be very talented but their take on prog felt clinical to me for some reason like everything was meticulously planned to a stupid degree. Which is a kind of dumb take i admit, this is pretty fun though i dont hate it

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Imma be honest and while I do love the content here, the band jumps over some prime opportunities to just let loose on some chugging sections like back in the days. There's probably three or four times at least on here, where it felt like it was setup to go utterly devastating and sit for a minute on some heavy polyrhythmic riff (like on the Parallax stuff, and older), but they're like nope, we'll just turn the car here this way instead.



Other than the that, I really don't have any qualms.

That one song they dropped I didn't enjoy at all. If one song has me at strong dislike, it's going to be hard to enjoy the album as a whole. I'll check this out anyway, because I do remember being obsessed with Colors in my early twenties. That and Alaska. Never liked anything else by this band.

Album Rating: 4.5

This is such a wild ride holy shit

probably my aoty so far, although i am extremely biased to these guys as theyre one of my favourites.

btw i pos'd the review cause even though i fundamentally disagree with it on nearly every level, it was still well written. which is what the pos button is goddamn for lmao


dont be butthurt folks, you know who you are

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"That one song they dropped I didn't enjoy at all."



Had the same reaction initially yeah. I think only a fraction of the tracks stand on their own outside the context of the album and "Fix the Error" is not really one of them. I love it in the context of the full album though, it's like glorified bridge between Revolution and Never Seen.

This is btbam for sure

Jamie King knocking it out of the park on production duties again as well, love how crisp this sounds.

Album Rating: 5.0

BTBAM even making it hard for the haters to hate

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I love how I shied away from Revolution In Limbo as being a typical BTBAM song, and didn't give it all that much credit, but it fits so goddamn well in the tracklist it's like the song went Super Saiyan and climbed ten levels where it's positioned.



And the production just makes the whole album have a deep listening quality. It's like there's six to eight layers at any time, and it's the first record I can recall with BTBAM where that stood out so succinctly.

Album Rating: 5.0

Blake fucking doing it at the 2:15 mark of Double Helix

Album Rating: 2.5

This started pretty strong and then basically tripped over itself

"Blake fucking doing it at the 2:15 mark of Double Helix"

and that was the exact moment i realized.. these bastards have done it again lmao

Album Rating: 5.0

Gnocchi dude i love how this thing ends, cant agree there

Album Rating: 4.5

Gnocchi nooooo :-(

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"Blake fucking doing it at the 2:15 mark of Double Helix"



I can barely wrap my head around what he is doing there lmao it's ridiculous. My guess is he's playing the crash/snare rhythm with his right hand while beating the shit out of one of those goofily small snares with his left at the same time? Or it's a marching snare track completely separate from his drum track? Would love to know how they achieved that sound cause it is def not electronics.

Album Rating: 5.0

Guitar tone is razor sharp too, sounds amazing

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Okay guess it's time to listen to this