Like Gumboot Soup, this album presents a wide variety of musical ideas and (also like Gumboot Soup) executes the majority of them very well and manages to create an experience that, despite the lengthy runtime, doesn’t drag.
For context, this album was originally supposed to be used during the interludes of Gizzard’s performance at their soon-to-be-cursed festival “Timeland”, which ended up being cancelled. However, the mythos and hype surrounding this album was ultimately more interesting than the music itself, which, in my opinion, sounds like a big mish-mash of ideas that just ended up leaving me confused after the album finished.
Since I just listened this album’s predecessor “…And Justice For All” very recently, I feel obliged to compare the two.
Firstly, and perhaps most obviously, the music itself is a lot less complex and prog-y here than it was on the last album, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing because it made this album a lot easier to digest for me.
Secondly, the lyrical content is a lot less political here, with the band instead focusing on more personal matters like ... read more
Honestly, most of this album is pretty great. It just falls apart a bit during the last few tracks.