An album that really, really overstays its welcome, clocking nearly twice the runtime of its predecessor which I already found a bit too samey overall, without imporinvg much at all upon it and I daresay taking a step back even. There is a touch more goth energy in this versus the ethereal debut, and so already we start on a basis of music that is fine but a bit teenagey. 1 is a bore, 2 is a bit better, 3 has more energy but there you see how the never-altered, more gothic sounding slightly electronic dreamy vocals don't always fit and more importantly never change. 4 does get a bit shoegazy and 5 more electronic, and this first say third of the album is actually quite alright, bringing it from 3.0 to 3.5 sort of ballpark. By 7 I was describing this as an'ok blur' and there are 10 more tracks to go. Idk if it was the nice conditions but 9 did grab my attention a bit, and 10 has a nice intro, but 11 with its strings and vox and d4rk synths makes it really sound gothically ridonkulous. From taht poiint on I was out of the album and I very nearly stopped it at several stages. 13 does have a cute start but evolves awfully. 17 does bump this a point because it isn't the worst conclusion in the world, but after 70+minutes it all crumbles down to a 1.5
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