I don?t think I have ever felt so annoyed with a project in my entire life. The idea of this sophomore record from the Australia band was a great one. Orchestral elements merge with very soft yet powerful disco and boogie instrumentals and the first few tracks hit that out of the park. ?Light?, ?free?, and ?Comeback? are well executed and performance tracks with the perfect balance of instrumentals, vocals, and presence and to be honest past that there are some good tracks here and there. But as a whole, this album is first off extremely bloated. The whole second album of this double album seems like an odd tack on of b-sides that didn?t make the first album. Secondly, this album is extremely taxing to sit through. Some of the most boring disco tracks I have heard in a long time are littered throughout this project. Third, the distracting amount of Daft Punk and Pink Floyd influence makes this actually sound sometimes like a carbon copy. Lastly, the constant feeling that this album is building towards something grander and more explosive just never shows up. Overall, a pretty disappointing album.
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