Album Rating: 1.5
This is genuinely dreadful and I say that as someone who is a big fan of OM and The Sciences. Woeful production, which completely negates any potential weight this album might have had; poor riffs, most likely as a consequence of Al completely commandeering this and leaving no room for Bubba to express himself; weak vocals, with Al sounding like a bad caricature of himself (it was never this nauseatingly on the nose in the past). Even the album title is pathetic. I’ll also say that this album highlights just how fucking good Jason Roeder is - Dale is obviously a quality drummer but he adds absolutely nothing to this and the drum tones are terrible.
I’ve seen some people state that Al should have just released this as an OM album, due to lacking Matt Pike, and my response to that is to say it’s nowhere near the quality of the ‘worst’ OM album.
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