Album Rating: 4.0

absolutely stellar. fxmldr is my song of the year rn. also LOVE the breakbeat section at the end of Birdwatching, real Venetian Snares vibe.

Hard 4.5. Anchor feels like the weird love child of BTBAM, Tool and Coheed that was conceived with a small brass band watching.

Album Rating: 4.5

Current thinking is "Life of Vermin" is the best track here, with "FXMLDR," "Chromology," and "Anchor" following close behind. All four songs absolutely fucked live.



Really like "Shatner's Lament" too - an interlude it may be, but it's a necessary respite and I'd be interested to hear them pursue such a soft, smooth direction for a full song.

Album Rating: 2.0

'Anchor feels like the weird love child of BTBAM, Tool and Coheed that was conceived with a small brass band watching.'



OK, I really wanted to check this, but think that feeling may have passed.

Album Rating: 4.5

Demon just try Anchor. Takes you less than 10 minutes and if you don't like it you know where you stand.

Album Rating: 2.0

My point was that the combination outlined by 'CrazyDrummer' sounds horrific. I'll probably still check this as I've replied to the thread now, someone mentioned TMV, and above all else, my curiosity is still sufficiently piqued. I can't promise more than one complete spin though, the album is looooooong.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

dis is good...I happen to don t like it much though...TMV challenged mind&heart...this is prolific but bounded.

Album Rating: 5.0

This is the best album of the year and a very important album in the history of progressive music. In the beginning, progressive bands who fused many styles and instruments still held an independent view of these elements (in Emerson Lake & Palmer's original release, you'd often find them switching between styles with a primary emphasis on one particular instrument).

With this album, however, I get the impression that the musicians have achieved a true state of synergy that they had been trying to reach in their previous two releases. It would be my guess that all of the members came from a variety of different backgrounds, and through their collaboration, have become entirely receptive to each other's cultural/musical influences (New Moon and Terraformer being prime examples in which the band explored Eastern themes further).

This album is the future; this is the beginning of an era where musicians will learn to synergize with each other to elevate music to a new level.

Hopefully it means the sex bots are right around the corner as well.

Important in the history of prog rock? Lol come on man. It's dumb to make such grandiose claims, especially in regards to an album as unspectacular and meandering as this. Your last sentence leads me to believe that you're trolling.

woof, that's a lot of hyperbole in one comment

Album Rating: 4.5

Very excited statements being made but I can’t personally deny the feat that this album attains as an incredibly impressive collaboration

One complaint I do have about this album after a few listens is the pacing. Each individual song is great but as a whole the album feels like it ends 3 times. Life of Vermin, Anchor, and t/t are all so climactic it throws things off for me

Album Rating: 5.0

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective people, Covey argues that to become an effective person, one must first reach a state of independence (the polishing of a musician's talents). Once this is achieved, the next goal is to reach a state of interdependence, where one can effectively work with others to achieve results superior to what one could produce alone (e.g. the collaboration between this band's musicians). This is what inspired my view of this album.

Some may not like the music that this band produces, but I think you would be hard pressed to argue that this band hasn't reached such a state of interdependence; there aren't many bands as diverse as TYS who have achieved this state as far as TYS has.

Yeah, college was fun for me too.

csb

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Yeah band's too scholar

Hard to say its not good though.

Album Rating: 5.0

Everything I said was wordy and comes off as pretentious—fair enough. However, I'd love to hear another perspective regarding the collaborative aspect of the album; I said some pretty big things and would like to be corrected if I'm wrong.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Nothing you ve said is wrong...I guess...and I honestly hate when talented artists make me feel nothing. But will spin this again someday cause your love for it convinced me.

Album Rating: 4.5

Again for you too triple D, just listen to Anchor as a standalone song. It gets a bit buried on first listens but holy crap if that song won't convince you, nothing on here will imo.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Ok Scheumke. Will do m/