Album Rating: 5.0

Hands down the best acid album I've heard, thing fucking breathes.



Gemini takes on a whole new dimension live (Becoming the quadpod?)

“another excerpt” is the greatest of all the things & this is tops maudlin album

Album Rating: 5.0

Another Excerpt is borderline perfect but not even top 3 here

And Gemini live sounds like the stuff of nightmares ngl. Would kill for that level of terror

i am going to sleep now because i partially disagree with you

Album Rating: 5.0

Sleep is a curse

Album Rating: 5.0

Agreed with Johnny and Veldin. This is my third favorite Toby album behind Bath and Choirs. Then Dowsing and Hubardo next which makes the top 5.

Album Rating: 3.5

wanna give this one another try

So good.

Album Rating: 5.0

Bookends on here are incredible, among Toby’s very best work.

Album Rating: 5.0

Agreed! They talk about astral projecting for Bath/LYBM, but this album, to me, sounds like it's straight out of a dream realm. So damn beautiful. Fuck, I'm so stoked for new Kayo Dot, which features Maudlin musicians. Haven't been this hyped for new Toby since Hubardo

The acoustic guitar solo in the lead track

I should not be the last comment on this since October waaauughhh (Wario voice), this is so good

only heard this like once and dont remember it

holy shit that opener. when the blue ghost harmonics come in 😩😩😩

Album Rating: 5.0

this one < 3

Album Rating: 4.5

this is a slapper



maybe best maudlin

Part the Second is extremely boring, uninspired and unmemorable album and easily the most overrated release of the decade. I wish I had never downloaded this, because to me it is just a huge waste of time. I could have listened to any of my 2400 unrated albums instead of this pile of crap.

The best song of the album is "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)", because after you're done with that song, the seemingly never-ending torture finally ends.

PS. The genre votes are very misleading, because I thought this would be a progrock album. Part the Second has nothing to do with genuine progressive rock, since the music on the album is Avant-Prog with influences of Post-Rock. Should I have known this, I would never had downloaded the album in the first place and motW fans wouldn't have to look at my review feeling like their brains would pop. So please, put some thoughts into your genre votes in the future, instead of blindly voting for whichever genre that already has two plus votes.

Album Rating: 5.0

The second issue I had with this album was I felt there was no dynamic - the entire album seemed to stay at a slow, melancholy pace, never showing joy, triumph, anger, or even extreme sorrow - just melancholy. It was like the music was disinterested in life: it went to bed early and slept late into the day, eating nothing but cold cereal all day and never getting out of its pajamas, and liked to write in its journal about how it didn't think it could live without Edward...oh, whoops, I'm mixing this up with Twilight again.

they always have the exact same taste its incredible

Album Rating: 5.0

was about to rag on rym NPCs but

I have been a Progressive Metal addict since 2000, roundabout. I grew up with two music snobs for parents and listened mostly to classical and jazz. In my pre-teens, I found a record copy of ELP's "Pictures at an Exhibition", and this started my love affair with Prog. In college I was listening to a lot of Satriani and Vai, had just seen the G3 tour with Petrucci, and I was studying one day while listening to Satch. My roommate at the time was the film club president and a young man we shall call D came to return some camera equipment. Hearing, and recognizing Satch, he asked if I knew Dream Theater. As I did not, D insisted I borrow an album. I immediately liked them, though I just did not "get" some of their songs. I remember HATING Metropolis Pt. 1 from Images and Words, but for some strange reason a piece of the instrumental section stuck in my head. I had to listen to the song again because of this and after a few listens I had an epiphany, and began to piece together some of the things the band was doing with poly-rhythms and compound time signatures. This is where I truly began to understand and love Progressive music.



= specific subgenre of eyeroll

Album Rating: 5.0

Best thing Toby's done besides Bath and Choirs.