Truly awful, outside of Human Sadness and Dare I Care

Gets off on very uneven footing but really grows into itself in the latter half of the album

gets very tedious towards the end which is a shame after such a strong first 3/4 of the record

Mamma Mia and Time to Pretend are quality, but Chiquitita and Someone Like You sound like drunken renditions among friends at a party at 2am. Not what I've come to expect from BCNR

There's some great stuff on here but the album is really unpolished and more than a few songs feel unfinished and under developed. It's a shame because the sound is great, as good as Gojira's best work

A handful of strong tracks on the backend barely keep this record from drowning in a sea of weak ideas and performances

Second half of the album is weaker than the first, but still very strong

Undoubtedly pretty noises without much structure or substance to them

There's talent on show, but not a whole lot to elevate the album or excite on any level

A near-perfect bitesize morsel

Edit: Re-listening to this for my end of year review, I have no idea what I was smoking the first time.

96>78

Starts weak, ends super strong

It's good, but quite derivative of the genre

It's not my thing

Not the strongest work from MIKE who is normally one of the best in the business

Underwhelming

Some highlights, but mostly just really underdeveloped and disappointing

All very chill, very relaxing, quintessentially Nils Frahm

It's raw, but there's a lot of talent and great ideas here

It doesn't all work, but for the most part it's very good

I don't know what to say about this one honestly. First five tracks I was genuinely thinking this could be a 10/10 album, then Elevators is a nose-dive out of the blue and the album never really recovers from there.