Album Rating: 3.0

Not sure what I think about this. Definitely reminds me of Colors in the cohesiveness area though.

Album Rating: 3.0

Opinions are opinions.

Album Rating: 4.0

In my opinion, there weren't that many lows on Colors, bar the parts where the vocals get annoying (which are still present here). Here it feels like there are a lot more low points; despite that, this is a pretty cool album, it just never matches Colors (as i'd call it) "epicness" (which i'm pretty much a sucker for).

My respect! The points you'd argue you for Colors are ones that I would use for this album. Colors is
such a mess of an album; there is so much wasted time and reiterated ideas throughout its length.
This album seems to have a focus that Colors lacked.

And looking at it this way, Colors was BTBAM's first real forage into overtly progressive territory, so
their experimentation makes sense. I just think they settled into their prog-mold a little better this
time.


I don't think ive ever agreed so much with a statement on this site than the one above me. Waior hit the nail on the head with this one, 10000000 % agreed.

if you put Misdirect and Colours right next to each other, Colours really does appear as a mess imo. Misdirect seems a lot more refined even though it's shorter in terms of the number of tracks.

Album Rating: 3.0

Cheers, Rob.



Like, Colors really was a "fuck man look what I can do" album on everybody's part and with this album, now that they've made their jumbled and comically-spastic talent apparent already, they decided to turn it all into something cohesive - or as Ali said, "a lot more refined." And not so inherently dumb.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

I like this album. It's still growing on me, but I listen to it more regularly than most albums at the moment.



It looks really short with the six tracks. But then you look at it--it's 59 minutes long.



But it still somehow seems to end way too soon.

Album Rating: 4.5

TGM is so much more thought out than colors....colors felt way too "forced"...like they just all started shredding and didn't give a crap about awkward transitions...



TGM actually has awesome transitions, and their proggy parts actually fit together with the brutal parts to make one long song; instead of multiple chunks of little songs jumbled up to make a 12 minute song.

Album Rating: 4.5

sorry i just realized someone else said something similar...i wasn't copying :P

Album Rating: 3.5

Didnt think I'd like it but its pretty good.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Obfuscation is definitely the best song

naw

my fave song of this album constantly changes. Right now its Obfuscation.

Album Rating: 3.0

sorry i just realized someone else said something similar...i wasn't copying :P

but it does not rock the hardest

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

It's the catchiest and the most memorable to me. I'll give this another listen tonight. I've really been neglecting this even though they're probably one of my favorite bands.

Album Rating: 4.5

FOSSIL GENERA! apart from the intro :P

Album Rating: 2.5

They need to either write more songs like "obfuscation" or go back to the sound on Alaska, atleast that album had musical direction and was pretty damn amazing. All the random slow passages, snoozeworthy cleans, and the "here take this and this, we're innovative" songwriting, dont do it for me on this.



Edit: "Average" should be changed to "Passable" imo, because an album like this can feel like a 2.5, but not exactly be average.

Album Rating: 4.5

see I think without the proggy stuff they get too repetitive...I liked Alaska but if they kept writing stuff like that I think all their albums would be too predictable...The proggy stuff makes it interesting cuz you are unsure of what they're going to do next, and it gives each song a very unique quality... I could be wrong but I think they can't really grow too much if they keep sounding like they did on Alaska...

Album Rating: 4.0

Great album. These guys never fail to impress me