Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah it feels like more of an Einar solo album than a full Leprous album.



"But it sounds like the rest of the band are at 30%. I think knowing how capable the whole group is and how they're hardly ever playing to their capacity is what bums me out."



This hard. That's what disappointed me the most. My expectations have lowered with every album since Coal. Having said that, with the skill these guys have they can do anything. I still think they're probably the most talented "younger" prog band

Album Rating: 4.0

Well I don't remember if somebody mentioned it here or not but they've released a video where they read comments from youtube and what they said is that the most Einar album was Congregation which was written 90% by him unlike this one

Album Rating: 4.0

Yes, it was posted on a Leprous thread. It's the character of the songs, not the writer who's to blame.

Album Rating: 4.0

Bass really shines in some songs, mostly guitar is really put on the background, but since most of the band is doing keyboards live too I don't think that matters at all. Baard and Einar are amazing as always

Album Rating: 4.5

I Lose Hope is so good. Need to put this album on soon, even though Leprous are quite dark and don't want too much dark stuff atm

Album Rating: 4.0

HEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY



I'M GONNA LET IT OUT LETITOUT LETITOUUUUUUUUT





HEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYY



Fuck, the bass on this song brings the funk

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah At the bottom rocks, I tired to sing the last part but it's so insane, going from the very bottom to the very top of the range

Album Rating: 4.5

well, imo a good musician also knows when to stfu or put down your instrument respectively. so lack of technicality is not making anything worse per se. in terms of composition, this album is top notch. especially the added classical instruments

Album Rating: 4.0

And that's true

Album Rating: 3.5

It is true, but a good musician doesn't need to stfu the whole album either. Idk, this is what they wanted to do, I can appreciate that. I'm just not very enthusiastic about the direction.

Album Rating: 3.0

Agree ^^^

Album Rating: 4.0

Did they shut up for the whole album? There's like 2 quiet songs here and rest is technical wankery in the background and not in the background

Album Rating: 3.5

They're very subdued throughout. At least in comparison to the rest of their discog.

Album Rating: 3.0

The majority of the instrumentation seems electronic or keyboard-heavy, at least for the first two-thirds

Album Rating: 4.0

the bass lines have never been so prominent in the song structure (Cryptogenic Desires had awesome funky bass, but that's it), and the drum parts are as interesting as ever, just not tech metal style. The guitars are in the background, agreed, but there're also songs with nice riffs (like Foreigner and The Sky is Red). The album is not off balance, it's just a different style. The same way guitars are not as important in many jazz albums, which doesn't throw the songs off balance.

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah, I love it when bands try to make the bass more prominent and diverse. also, afair there some juicy jazz guitars in the backgrounds. they are just not in your face as much as you might expect in the genre

Album Rating: 4.5

I get criticisms like the vocals being very loud compared to the instruments, but that's also about the right production style for the right genre and I think that criticism fits better for Malina than Pitfalls, because Pitfalls is doing different things instrumentally

Like, Malina was kind of The Congregation without screams and with strings

Album Rating: 4.0

nice observation Kalk, I agree



After Malina, they HAD to take an other route, or we probably wouldn't discuss about Leprous right now. Malina was beutiful to me, but really didn't add much to the table other than some pure quality songs. Stylistically it was diverse, but not new for them.

Album Rating: 4.5

Right! Especially the staccato riffs had to end, they couldn't take that any further. It got annoying

Album Rating: 4.0

yup. They got off board before they got repetitive, and have left all other modern prog bands mimicking them