When a sucky followup perfectly illustrates what was good about its predecessor. There's so little space in the production it might as well be mono, the guitar tone is trash, way too loud and doesn't mesh with anything at all. The electronic arrangements on Spell admittedly weren't that creative, they usually stood seperate from the guitar-driven sections, but they sounded fitting by occupying the same sonic space, here they sound out of place and shitty like everything else. Well, at least they're not using the same song template over anymore, and the single and the title track are pretty good songs. Mostly though i'm just not feeling it as much to the point where it seems like contractual obligation to me, i really don't know, Laughter made it easy to describe the mood of a track at any moment even if at most it's contradictive, here it's just indistinct. That's what they mean when they describe albums as "soulless", and when on top of that it's not very interesting compositionally, poorly produced, or even catchy, what is there? Then again, i've still listened to those tracks an assload of times so what do i know... It's just weird man.
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