Album Rating: 4.0

Wait... you can't actually finish the album on Spotify? That's actually rad af.

New album is surprisingly solid after 1 spin. Too long tho

Album Rating: 4.0

Proverbial is a top three tune of theirs.....

wait it's out TODAY? lmao dropping everything and listening immediately

Album Rating: 4.0

To all the people claiming Colors II is easily the best thing they've done in a decade plus... please recheck the automata albums. Kinda disjointed but the good stuff is def among their best material like Yellow Eyes, Blot, Proverbial Blow, Voice of Trespass.



Feel like these albums kinda fell by the wayside for a lot of people after Coma Ecliptic soured people

Album Rating: 4.0

It's always surprised me the amount of hate that comes for the Automata series. Obviously there is some garbage on their but when you break it down there's some career highlights sprinkled throughout.

Album Rating: 4.0

Heard good things on the new one. Will check asap.

Album Rating: 4.0

I feel like their career took off following Coma....

Album Rating: 4.0

I think the more restrained aggression on the post-Coma albums made them more accessible and therefore brought in new fans while pissing off a lot of older fans, as is always the case.

Album Rating: 4.5

Right now I'm preferring Automata to Colors II

Album Rating: 4.0

BTBAM albums always take a while to grow on me. I'ma hold off judgment until I've had time to listen to it a couple of times and digest it.

Album Rating: 4.0

"I feel like their career took off following Coma...."



Yeah pretty much like Sitar said, they're probably as popular as they've ever been, but coma made a lot of older fans check out, and a lot of those fans weren't too convinced or even interested in automata either (both have like 1/4 of the votes of most of their other albums here for instance).



I've mentioned it before here... but you can go on their subreddit and barely anyone seems to care about their pre-Colors material there besides Selkies and Mordecai, which will always be so weird to me haha

Album Rating: 4.5

Breaking Automata in two was also a massive error in terms of public opinion. Luckily they…fixed…the error.

Album Rating: 3.0

For me, I have no clue why it's such a distaste, because there is a relatively easy fix (put all the songs in a playlist) but I just can't do the split album for Automata. I'm not even that offended if it was for money reasons, it just doesn't sound like it should be two. Idk, maybe if they were considered EP's it wouldn't be any sort of issue at all. But for some reason, it just always has effected my judgement and reflection on the album...



Like if Tool split Fear Inoculum in two segments, would it be the same?



I like what Sitar said about the modern era of the band. Maybe part of my issue with Automata is because it's off the heels of Coma..

Album Rating: 4.0

I prefer Coma and post works. Most peeps would say the opposite I know

Album Rating: 4.0

you'd be surprised Muzz......I prefer their later material as well

Parallax was their low point but they've been steadily improving since then

Album Rating: 4.0

If I had to pick a low point, it would be the first 2 records.

Album Rating: 4.5

Automata and Coma are becoming my faves by the band, Colors II just comes off as really cheesy to me a lot of the time, bit of a dip in quality for me.

Album Rating: 4.0

Agree with these comments and Automata and Coma are my band favs too. Was surprised how how good Colors II was tbh