What a breathtaking experience, the sequencing on this thing is top-notch, despite it pulling from so many different influences that would make you think the project is all over the place it all ends up tying together perfectly and in spite of the genre switch ups it maintains the same consistent sailing aesthetic and story through its magnificent pacing, maybe it is too early and I haven't gone as in depth as I should into the storytelling but from what I could gather it seems like a ... read more
Great album, some recurrent tropes inside of it made it a bit repetitive like stopping in the middle of the song before an acoustic passage starts, a cool trick at first that loses it's novelty because it practically appears in every track, but other than that it is pretty good
It's such a jarring transition to go from some of Julian's best vocal performances in The New Abnormal to this... The production and instrumental aren't too different from something you would hear in Angles, yet for some reason it uses autotune very prominently which sounds extremely out of place and way worse than a song like Gratisfaction, the chorus is weak, the bridge with the doo-doo-doo-doo vocals sounds like something straight out of an unfinished demo, it's not good