After listening to it more and more DT12 has been getting more and more boring. Is it just me? I don't have the desire to listen to any of the songs except for Surrender to Reason and II. Live, Die, Kill anymore. 
For me, DT12 has been a grower. I like it more each time I listen to it.
My semi-controversial statement (to meet the requirements of the thread, of course) will be that Illumination Theory hasn't clicked yet for me. However, it took The Count of Tuscany several months before I loved it, so I think it still has plenty of time.
Oh, another possibly controversial thing: I don't really know what it is since I know nothing about singing or recording or production, but I really don't like the way JLB's vocals sound on a lot of DT12. Sometimes it sounds somewhat like he's drowning in effects, sometimes it sounds like there's about four of him singing at once, and sometimes I just don't know what it is, I just don't like the sound. I think the best description is this:
The Bridges In the Sky chorus was awesome. I loved the vocal style he used on that ("May healing waters bury all my pain") when I first heard it, and I still do love the way that part sounds. But it feels to me like about a third of the lines on DT12 sound like the Bridges In the Sky chorus, and that seems excessive to me and takes away the impact of the use of that style. I don't know exactly how that sound is achieved, whether it's something where JLB chooses to sing like that or if it's an effect or if it's a sound achieved by the use of doubling, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Perhaps the most noticeable part on DT12 where something close to that sound is used in a way that I don't think makes sense is "Give more than they take" in the first verse of Surrender to Reason, which is an acoustic part and I don't believe calls at all for the BitS voice.
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