am i the only one not really feeling this at all
the production is weird, especially the guitar sound just... feels really... i dunno how to describe it, muffled? like coated in a layer of styrofoam or something. it sounds really similar to the first aseitas album from a few years back, whose guitar sound i didn't like either
but the songwriting also just feels really prog-death by numbers. like there's an acoustic bit in invitation that's literally just an opeth ripoff. the songs are mostly focused around, of all things, harmonized clean vocals it feels like. not a lot of melody or riffage just texture under vocals. i dunno. nothing about it feels particularly inspired. none of it is -bad- either just i cannot imagine getting excited about it
yet this is getting a really positive reception from what i've seen. am i the weird one here?