Album Rating: 4.5

The release around 5 min into holy tears gets me every time

Album Rating: 4.0

Best drum performance was on this album for sure, by a country mile at that

Album Rating: 4.5

Harris said he learned a lot of new techniques for this but that he he overused them. I, too, disagree.

Album Rating: 3.5

nah, accurate assessment. the drums here are cool for sure, dig them in Wrists of Kings and Firdous esp, but there isn't a point where his emphasis on technique outdoes the simple power of his performance on Weight or any given Celestial song

Album Rating: 4.5

eh, for one album I like it. he does the galloping rhythm a bunch and I think it ties together the album, illustrating Quixote's eternal search for Dulcinea.

Album Rating: 4.0

Still one of ISIS' most underrated releases.

Album Rating: 4.0

I've soured a fair bit on this one. It is still a great record with many incredible moments but there is some uncharacteristically janky songwriting I'd either forgotten about or didn't pick up on when I was last super into them 10 years ago. WR has its lazy moments but the composition is much more fluid

Album Rating: 5.0

Such a peculiar and wonderful album, always dug it but has grown on me a lot the last couple years. Totally get the criticisms but those quirks just end up leading to interesting places, musically, imo



Some of the best ISIS moments ever are on this record, whether it’s on Holy Tears, Dulcinea, Firdous E. Bareen……

Album Rating: 4.5

Best band

Album Rating: 4.0

ISIS had an official forum once upon a time (long since gone) and I remember that people were very mixed on this album when it was released. Complaints ranged from it not being heavy enough, to the songwriting not being as strong as previous albums. I remember defending it pretty heavily. Problem was, it was coming on the back of an almost universally acclaimed album, a perfection of that ‘sound’. Another issue at the time was that there were some really good quality live recordings of them playing new tracks, which sounded substantially meatier than what would end up on record. I had a bit of a love/hate relationship with both the record and the way it was produced, and I think it’s clear in retrospect that the band had internal divisions in regards to where they should take their sound after Panopticon, but I’ve really come to appreciate this album over the years. Even the intro to the album, with an elongated clean section that builds in to another clean section, is a fairly good representation of how they weren’t just coasting off the sound and compositional foundation of Panopticon.

Album Rating: 4.0

worst ISIS is still amazing

Album Rating: 4.0

Indeed

Album Rating: 4.0

I disagree. The worst ISIS album is Wavering Radiant, easily.