I've been spinning the leak for the past few weeks while I wait for my copy of the album to reach me, but I assume it's ok to talk openly about it now. Overall this is a great album, although it is bottom tier solo work in my opinion which is not saying much because I love every solo album he's put out. There's a couple tracks that I usually skip which is something I never found myself doing with his other albums. Namely, 'Permanating,' which I enjoyed at first, but like most pure pop songs they grab you quick and drop you just as fast. Which is another way of saying I am already extremely bored of this song. 'The Song of I' is another one; it never really grabbed me in the first place. I feel like it would have been much better with some rock instrumentation.
There's a few other songs that I can take or leave, but there's also several gems on this record. 'Refuge' is probably my favorite track on the record. 'Detonation' is a dark, brooding and epic track then a little over halfway through it has an instrumental section that is very reminiscent of The Sky Moves Sideways. 'Song of the Unborn' is an absolute perfect album closer and has one of the best choruses SW has written imo. 'People Who Eat Darkness' is probably the highest energy song on the album, very catchy, and has really interesting instrumentation. Love it. As I already said in a previous post, 'Blank Tapes' is heavenly. Very short, but it has very touching melodies and lyrics.
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