Standouts: Shanghai(orientalism scratches me in the proper way), Catching Smoke, Butterfly 3000
lowkey a forced dreaminess to me
Edit: sonically, this is a decent experience. However, there is just too much unoriginality and forced emotion throughout the album. It no longer sounds like the album is trying to convey some feelings, but more of manipulating your emotion by this specific instrumentation here or that particular voicing technique there intentionally, in an unbelievably superficial way. I've never had too much expectation on this release, but this is still a major step down ... read more
Can't really rate this album rationally but all I know is this is exactly what I need at the moment