Super awesome production and very justifiably long songs, until the last one. I'll admit I'm horny enough for long songs a lot of times because 70s prog was how I got obsessed with music, but Jesus how is that the highest rated song on the album. Liked the rest a lot though. Good conclusion, would be a shame if it was undercut, again.
I'll start with the one ultrapositive first, Tyler's production is absolutely incredible here, even by Tyler standards. Super tight arrangements, just sounds incredible. It flows incredibly well too, or it did for the first third. Yeah, the first third of this was pretty much perfect and then it immediately became a slight mess. A lot of the songs were good but had too many changeups and were all over the place, at least for me. I would understand why some people would love that. ... read more
This is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to rate and as the user nntortoise said in the recent comments "i genuinely do not feel comfortable giving this a score as well as track ratings. I literally can't bring myself to do so. I'd literally just be rating an artists mourning of their dead wife." I agree with the statement, but I will proceed to rate it because I'm an asshole. It's produced well and the lyrics are very detailed and vivid, it's ... read more
At its best when it's just fast and brutal, but enjoyable too when it gets a little sludgier and down tuned.
My only problems is that some of the songs go on too long, notably the last 2. Also it doesn’t really flow well as an album, the songs feel like they could really be rearranged in any order. But the productions amazing and Tom morello is a much better guitarist than I originally gave him credit for. Also i don’t agree with everything being said in the lyrics, but that’s kind of guaranteed with anything political.