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Just...underwhelming.

Have A Nice Life have sadly, yet inarguably, been seeing a gradual career decline. They briefly saw a potential new creative spark with Barrett's "Giles Corey" project, but have since seemed to lack a vision comparable to their staggering debut record "Deathconsciousness", which seemed to propel them well above their contemporaries, and with way less money than them at that.

This isn't an uncommon occurrence for bands that release a masterpiece their ... read more

So I've decided this album is no longer a 100. While many of the positives I've said about it remain true, this record is, overall, a little too clean sounding. Sounds like a strange criticism, but every time I listen to this album, I always feel like it could use a little more distortion, reverb, or delay. Something to keep it from sounding so, I don't know, blemish-free.

Sonic perfection. There's so much about this album than can and should be said. How it deftly elicits feelings of nostalgia, curiosity, excitement, joy, mystery, catharsis, basically, like Another Green World, it's a record that contains everything that's great and wonderful about life.

Honestly, had Metallica done the smart thing and gone with a version of AJFA similar to this version, we'd be talking about that album in the same conversation as Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets. Alas, this wasn't to be, and what we're left with a superlative fan revision that gives us not only a superior product to the one we got, but a bittersweet glimpse into all that could've been.