Oh, it's a bit long
Manifolds again. As a reply to a comment of the previous round, I don't think Crystallized has a better structure than Snow. It depends on how the reprise of the verses/chorus seems forced or not. For example I love how Pareidolia connects brilliantly into his final chorus and this is one of the reason because it's probably my favourite Haken song, but on Crystallized I'm not at 100% convinced about it.
At the first listens of Snow I wasn't convinced too, I thought that after the first 7-8 minutes the song could end and that the last part was an unnecessary coda which made the song disjointed. Now that I know by heart these songs and their structures (Snow, Blind, STW, Manifolds and Souls) I think they are all coherent and their impredictability adds them a strong character and makes them more special.
Plus, the songs are always supported by great melodies, there are only 4-5 songs with this style and sound in their discography, each of them is clearly distincted by the other ones (maybe only Souls and Snow seems to relate with each other in style to me), and these factors helps the songs to not suffer from being disjointed in my opinion.
Instead I think Crystallized is too easily divisible in 4 parts that could have been named alone, which some of them are correlated to each other only because they remind sections that were together in Snow. It seems to me a summary of all everything has done in their career in only one song packed at the end in a logical, classic and compact structure that seems a little bit forced.
Maybe I only have to listen to it a bit more and forget for a moment the old version
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