I really shouldn't have listened to Choirs of the Eye just now, i'm totally going to be let down by this.

Based on very early first impressions (which never mean much concerning Kayo Dot), I like this a bit more than BLD. It definitely hits nowhere near as hard as Choirs / Dowsing though... hopefully it will grow on me. Sounds like a 3.5 currently.

Really interested to hear what that new EP is gonna sound like too.

some good moments here and there, but overall this is a pretty mediocre effort

do not want meh

haven't heard yet, don't have much desire to though strangely enough

It's weird, of course, but not really exciting.

this is almost hard to listen to.

just finished it and i can safely say i will never listen to it again. holy shit that was boring. RIP Kayo Dot.

Oh you crazy kids. If you didn't like bld, you probably won't like this. But I love bld; and this. Album rules overall.

They lost something on this album

You mean he.

I can't wait to listen to this. This will get over 150 comments.

meh

It's pretty good.

I second the meh.

Meh

Not even slightly impressed so far.

This is... What the... Following BLD up with this? At least BLD raped. There's just nothing interesting going on here.

I wasn't impressed the first few listens but it's really grown on me. Great album, better than BLD imo.

Looking forward to a review of this.

so far the first song is better than 90% of BLD at least.

Hmm been meaning to give these guys a listen, but from what I have heard from them their sound seems too immense to listen to listen to in a stream.

I have been listening to the leak for about a week, and my initial opinion has not changed: Toby is slowly relinquishing his awesomeness.

remember when this was a sputnik band?

I've been listening to it intensively this past week. Didn't like the opener/closer upon first listen(s). Now that I know the album pretty well, I'd say I like it as much as their other work

might listen but i didn't even really like these guys in the first place

if you don't like their previous albums, there is literally no reason to listen to this qwe3. it's pretty much like a lamer version of BLD.

wtf, it doesn't sound like BLD

i mean that it's lamer than BLD, not that it sounds like it. shouldn't have said lamer "version", my bad.

call me crazy but so far(4 songs in) i think this is their/his best work as kayo dot.
and i did enjoy blue lambency...

I can't remember the last time I've heard an album this miserably uninteresting.

Lol at everyone listening to this once and making judgements on it. CotE took me like a month to get into, and up until then I thought it was boring, abstract, and uninteresting. Pardon my skepticism but I think Sputnik's being very hipster-elitist-follow the staff with this one.

i'm waiting for the right time to listen to this completely....why is everyone so against it,i'm sure most of them wouldn't have given it an another listen...and kayo dot has never been friendly on the very first listen..........

I'd much rather take a new motW than this tbqfh

ITT: people forgetting it takes at least 2 months to enjoy any kayo dot.

I mean, choirs of the eye took a year or two to catch on after it was released if i recall

" ITT: people forgetting it takes at least 2 months to enjoy any kayo dot. "

pretty much this

Its pretty remarkable how a song as moving and exciting as The Manifold Curiosity came from the same band that did this...they really shat the bed on this one.

If it takes 2 months to enjoy an album, then you just wasted 2 months.

it really sounds like they (he?) didn't put much thought into writing this. Choirs sounded like every moment was planned to the dot, and this just meanders every which way saying: "look here guys, i'm avant-garde!"

If it takes 2 months to enjoy an album, then you just wasted 2 months.

i wouldn't say i wasted 2 months, it's not like this album is the only album i'll be listening to for the next 2 months, what has happened with most "dense" albums (kayo dot, bitches brew, etc.) is that i listen once go "that was cool i'm gonna go listen to normal music now" and then one day a song will come on shuffle, or i'll want to re-listen or whatever, and i'll go "wow i don't remember it being that cool" and that will repeat itself for a few months and then suddenly it will all click...

that being said, coyote has 90% clicked for me, except hte ending, i feel like it just kind of...ends

I really enjoyed this when I saw them play it live at my school... basswork is fucking sweet.

Coyote is awesome. How anyone could find it boring is beyond me. No, there are no metal guitars – does that make it boring? Hardly. The album is very nuanced, and reminds me at times of CotE. It's also more cohesive than BLD. I rate it 4.5.

Its a grower for those who like a bit of avant garde