A few days in and I'm feeling increasingly disappointed by the album. I love D/T but I'm not enjoying this one except the first two tracks. Was really looking forward to it.
The Alien, Answering The Call and Invisible Monster feel like realised
songs but the rest? It's weird. Highly impressive virtuoso playing; bright, clear production. But feels like the worst song writing of any DT album so far, imo. The basic meat of the songs is just not engaging me. So much enthusiastic performance, presented exceptionally clearly, but thoroughly unaffecting. The vocal melodies just don't
do anything. Very flat-sounding, in the main, and it's not JLB's performance. He sounds excellent.
I feel they need to write the basics of songs (verses, choruses) first until they
have something. Then use their unparalleled skills at instrumental fire to
enhance them with that instrumental DT magic to
add to them.
I'd also love to hear how they sound if they learned the songs then recorded them
without a click. I have a feeling it would help.