Album Rating: 3.5

Copying my comment from the Vaxis II thread:

"Just got to Someone Who Can and so far I'm enjoying the album a lot. Some of the '80s cheese works for me and some of it is a little flat but still better than what they did on I and II. Fucking love the title track and Play the Poet. Interested in what this upcoming suite is going to sound like."



Finished the album and I need to give it more listens to pick out more of the songs. The Continuum suite not having any Coheed epics was surprising because I think this is the first story-based Coheed album without one.



Favorites are Searching for Tomorrow, The Father of Make Believe, Play the Poet, and The Continuum IV: So It Goes.



I also got emotional as hell hearing the return of the Hollow motif *AND* Domino the Destitute at the beginning of The Continuum III.

Album Rating: 4.0

The Domino and Pretelethal callbacks were awesome yes

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah the Continuum is fan service in the best ways

Album Rating: 3.5

Phenomenal review btw, Odal. I don't think I can put this over Ascension as their best album since Good Apollo I but I can see it slotting in behind it if it grows on me a lot.

Album Rating: 4.5

Might be their best album since Good Apollo

Album Rating: 4.5

This sounds really good so far

Holy shit, it's this good? Thank fuck man. I truly loved this band's output from Second Stage to No World for Tomorrow. If they've recaptured that same energy and stylings then hell fucking yeah let's go.

If there's a single band on earth that I can forgive for their love of anthemic choruses, it's C&C. Goodbye, Sunshine has that type of chorus that you just want to jump and scream the lyrics to. I need to go see them live.

Album Rating: 4.5

Holy shit dude Play the Poet is insanely good

Album Rating: 4.0

GEnuinely one of the best live bands of time, everyone should see them.

Album Rating: 4.0

Play the poet maybe has the heaviest part on any Coheed track? And doesn't feel dumb and phoned in and bad like BSS

Album Rating: 3.5

Ya know, I guess you could probably call The Continuum II: The Flood an epic in the grand scheme of this album but it's not a Dark Sentencer or In Keeping Secrets type of tune. Each song kind of feels like they get equal chance to shine because of it.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Play the poet maybe has the heaviest part on any Coheed track?"



Idk, that lead back into the final chorus of Al the Killer might still take it for me but it's close. It doesn't sound overly heavy on the album but live it's like getting blasted by a shotgun.

Album Rating: 4.0

They are overall a *much* heavier band live. So fun to watch play too.



And yeah the lack of that kind of 'epic' is a double edged sword. i"m happy for them not to be super formulaic and feel like they always need to do the same shit like that, but I do always love those tracks.



This overall just feels way more cohesive than the last 2, flows so nicely and really feels like an album, and just so consistently strong.

Album Rating: 4.0

Corner my Confidence is gorgeous too. Best soft track in ages imo. Always skip the V1 closer I hate it.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yesterday's Lost really hit me hard on the first listen and I got a little choked up from the lyrics. I don't think that's ever happened from a Coheed song for me and I suppose it's because I'm married and getting older now but hearing those words with the symphonic swells behind them had me trying to keep some composure.



"This overall just feels way more cohesive than the last 2, flows so nicely and really feels like an album, and just so consistently strong." [2]

Album Rating: 4.7

Oh, same here LightandGlass. I choked up at more than a few moments throughout honestly lol

Album Rating: 4.5

All the cool callbacks really make this feel like the true culmination of the bands work. I can't imagine a fan of any previous albums not having something here to dig.

Album Rating: 4.5

On my first play through but just hit "Play the Poet". Where the fuck did this side of the band come from and where the Hell has it been?

Also happy Claudio ditched the auto tune on this one. Got pretty cringe on Vaxis II as much as I appreciate them trying something new