Album Rating: 3.5

I'm still forming my thoughts, hopefully on Monday I'll have time to just put this on for one or 2 full attention plays. From my first impressions of listening to it briefly yesterday and today (while tired af and giving it a spin in a bus after work) I think overall it's an improvement over their last 2 albums, although these had much better standouts (Castaway Angels, Nighttime Disguise, Distant Bells, Silent Revelation, The Sky is Red to name them).



I'm not sure yet how well the repeated song structure will work after spending some time with it.

I can also already say that some songs I was mixed about directions they went into after how they start, Limbo being the standout offender in this regard - synth in the background really tricked me, I'd start expecting them going into slightly darkish/uneasy/discomfort kind of vibe and enjoying the hell out of it, before song suddenly starts exploding with poppish positivity. It's later section remedied that slightly but not fully.

Obviously though I'm biased as a long time fan who enjoyed Bilateral and Malina the most out of their catalogue.



Gosh, it's 4am, I'm not exactly exclaiming my thoughts clearly but hopefully you guys get what I mean by this rubbish I just wrote haha

Album Rating: 3.0

I agree that the last few peaked higher for me but I appreciate the overall direction they're taking with this one more and there's better variety and fewer duds.



Good review too, I think that last paragraph sums it up well.

I can’t bring myself to listen to this album. All their albums since The Congregation have been lame. I listened to the first single and it confirmed to me all the issues I figured it would have after Aphelion. Einar needs to take a step back and stop being the whole imagine of the band

Album Rating: 4.0

This is weird in the best possible way

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Im going to go with a 3.5 that has room to go higher. Albums quite strange

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Einar has also said the album that the congregation was the record he apparently had the most creative control of for memory. Im guessing the whole band is down for this weird direction

“haven't heard yet, but I swear if it's another record where they use the same dumb trite pattern of vocals + keys for the first half/three quarters of a song, then do same shit but more dramatically with an underwhelming guitar riff underneath, I'm slapping a 1 on this bitch and not looking back”

“There’s no way this is good”

Hard [2]’s

Man this sounds promising, was worried after that radio Disney album

Album Rating: 4.0

When you think about it, and I mean /really/ think about it, this is just Take Me Back To Eden without the djent chugs.

Album Rating: 2.0

Thank you for confirming that this is awful. Will avoid.

Album Rating: 4.0

I hate thinking

Kinda cool

Need a few more listens

Album Rating: 2.5

Gettin better

Album Rating: 4.3 | Sound Off

So, it seems like the general consensus (and one I experienced, as well) is that this is a grower and also it helps if you're able to give it some attention and not just let it be background noise... even if it's just from a 2.0 to a 2.5, ha ha.



@BrushedRed: I don't really understand your logic, but if you've hated all the post-The Congregation albums, this would still probably be your favorite of that bunch... but what would that really mean? 2.0-2.5?

Single was hilarious

Album Rating: 2.5

Never listened to Leprous before but heard great things yet thought this was pretty boring.



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What album to listen too to 'get it'?

Album Rating: 2.5

Bilateral, Coal, Congregation all day

Album Rating: 4.3 | Sound Off

@GroundKing: I would recommend Live At Rockefeller Music Hall. The sound is better on it than on the albums, the performances are awesome, and it's almost a best-of from their prog metal era.

Malina for the latter era. Bilateral rules for the golden age.

What a huge piece of shit this album is.