Reviews
I keep seeing this on 'best of' lists and I honestly think people are just copying each other's homework at this point. There's nothing here that hasn't been done better elsewhere. The emperor has no clothes and the praise is baffling.
I wanted to like this more than I did. Some good ideas buried under uneven execution.
I've given this the benefit of the doubt across multiple listens over multiple years and my opinion hasn't budged. Overrated, overlong, and overwrought. The good moments are too few and far between to justify the runtime.
Incredibly well-crafted. A few moments don't work but the highs are very high.
The ideas are there but the execution falls flat too often.
A very cohesive listen. The sequencing is particularly impressive.
The kind of album where you sit in silence after it ends.