Review Summary: Wash out your ears by blasting "Tunnels" and "Anomaly" a few hundred more times.
This was an album we all were patiently awaiting after hearing the new album will have a "We Don't Need to Whisper" sound, before finding out he meant after this. "...Of Nightmares" feels like an album which was sloppily put together with only one or two good songs ~ granted it is a four song EP, but still, that's a 50%.
This opens up with "Home." A wonderfully eerie track that ends in brutal disappointment with just heavy distortion and overdrive. It sounded like Tom and Ilan smashed a completely different song to "Home", making this track best listened to up until about 2:35.
This quickly follows up with "Into the Night" an energetic track that plays loud and strong all the way through, minus an underwhelming bridge, but we are all accustomed to that after the previous album "The Dream Walker".
We then slow down to a screeching halt with "View from Below." Now this song could've been something truly amazing, however, it falls from something I call "Secret Crowds Syndrome," where a song is good until it repeats itself to death. "Secret Crowds" may have repeated many more times, but this song has a much more dry chorus, and it is overly slow with only a few glipses of great in it, making this sound like the least worked song on the track, next to...
"Parasomnia" is awful, no madder how you look at it. It starts sounding promising, with trombones, and it builds and builds into a trashy techno beat. Now, I understand that this was a soundtrack, and this would only be good for ambiance. The best part is the end ~ the 40 father-f*cking seconds of silence, while we patiently await for something to save the album, but nothing saves it.
In the end, "...Of Nightmares" has one good song, one okay song, one bad song, and one garbage one. Buy "Into the Night" and jam to that for a few hours and then go back to blasting "Call to Arms."
2/5
