Album Rating: 5.0

Disagreed. Jake fucking rules

Album Rating: 3.0

jake shines on this album dude. i assume you havent given it a fair chance...

Album Rating: 4.0

He's definitely the best he's ever been on this one. Or at least since Messengers.

Album Rating: 5.0

Best ever. His range had improved and the spoken word parts are pretty chilling

Album Rating: 3.0

the depths of some of his lows are impressive on the record

Album Rating: 4.0

He's a great speaker then too? So are you saying he should be an audiobook narrator?

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh hell yeah

Album Rating: 5.0

Wack what you think of this

Album Rating: 3.0

i really don't hear much of a difference between this and leveler. i mean i guess it's a little bit better

Album Rating: 4.0

I likes it alot, I just wish I had blank cd's or a working ipod so I could jam this away from the computer. The production is fantastic so I'm sure it sounds great turned up in the car.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's way more in your face. Much more beautiful at times(except Salt & Light) and production is stronger. Jake sounds refreshed and it isn't a somewhat incohesive experimented version of Constellations

Album Rating: 5.0

Indeed. Sounds awesome on my cans and through my PA

Album Rating: 4.0

This is way more refreshing and interesting musically than Leveler. That album was so stale, way too many Constellations rehashes.

Best he's ever been? He really doesn't sound much different at all from Constellations...He sticks to the safe route and pretty much sounds the same throughout...which is what's holding them back

Album Rating: 4.0

Jake's pretty great at what he does, he's just kind of a 1 trick pony. Not sure if that is really holding them back, just means they can't do parts with stuff like clean singing, but even then they could just leave it instrumental.

Album Rating: 4.0

I actually think he's branched out and stretched is voice more than ever before. Particularly in "Provisions," "Sincerity," and "Animals" he tries a bunch of different styles. Definitely more than on Constellations.

Album Rating: 4.0

Surprise album of the year for me so far. idk where I was when the album previews and stuff were in the news but I thought this was just gonna be a leveler pt 2

Album Rating: 4.5

levelers production was pretty bad as well

As I said before, Jake is the weak-link of the band. Someone posted something about Jake and the producer spending 100 hours on vocals yet I can hear mistakes just from close-listening. There are vocal mistakes in "Beauty In Tragedy" throughout the entire song. Also, the yelling he attempts to do just does not work for him in the slightest. It does not work live and it does not work on this record.

The production is pretty good. This album and production is getting praised simply on the basis that everything about it is better than Leveler. Listen closely to the production: The cymbals sound one dimensional; they have no definition. The guitars are the best part about this, but even the guitars could have been recorded better. It lacks the amount of bite that could only come from proper recording. Jake's vocals are processed weird and at times are too low in the mix; there is like a weird reverb on his vocals the entire record too. Probably the worst part, however, is the ridiculously harsh snare. Listen to the breakdown in Provisions around 1:30 in great headphones. Notice how harsh the snare sounds when it hits. I can't listen to it without cringing.

At the end of the day, Constellations is still their best. I guess after sometime most people will come to realize this, but this album is a good sign that will remain pretty good musicians for the rest of their career, despite peaking so early.

Yeah everything about the album is pretty sweet except for the vocals D: