Black Clouds was the only album where I went "Uh oh" I hope this isn't the beginning of the end but the last three albums have proved me very wrong. Even Black Clouds had the Count of Tuscanny, which is amazing! Also Wither has grown tremendously on me.
Yeah, agree on Black Clouds. TCOT is the only silver lining (pun intended) on that album. I used to like the other songs a lot more, but last time I gave the whole album a listen (around 1 or 2 weeks ago) they didn't sound too good to me.
- ANTR has great moments, like the beautiful agony chorus, but it drags after the instrumental break.
- AROP is a very weird song, the only things I like about it are the bass intro and the guita solo.
- Wither is ok but pretty uneventful. I compare it to other ballads like TSCO or TBP and the difference is huge.
- TSF is very good, but it relies way too much on the previous songs of the suite to stand on its own.
- TBOT has THAT guitar solo and the intro is really cool, but the rest of the song does nothing for me. It feels like they made it longer -
and longer just to fit more lyrics about MP's father and the song loses its momentum imo.
- TCOT still feels as good as always