http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5801&msg_id=6160 4.5/5 - This album is my favorite album in recent memory. Not a 5 solely because the lyrics are often terrible and the story is kind of dumb. Music is sooooooo good. Michael Mills seriously needs to do more music, his voice is incredible. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Pretty State Machine Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:19:05 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5801&msg_id=6160 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5801&msg_id=5966 So... I went back and listened to this a few more times. This album is overall pretty incredible. I mean, the lyrics are typically terrible Arjen ESL nonsense (which is discussed in hilarious fashion in this review), but the music and the vocal performances are fucking out of this world. I love Seventh Wonder (one of the bands I've listened to the most... ever [at least according to iTunes play counts]), but Tommy Karevik really shines on this album (much more so than on his recent Kamelot work where he just tries to emulate the legendary Roy Khan). Cristina Scabbia nails it as well (better than her main band). This album is really just a metal version of Tommy, with less pinballs and more physics. Rating individual tracks was essentially impossibe (but I did it anyways), as this shit is cut up arbitrarily to coincidence with a tracklist of 42 tracks (sigh). 4.0/5 - This album is great. The lyrics are really the only reason it is not a 4.5, as they are just... bad ("loser" should NEVER be a lyric. EVER). This is probably my favorite thing that Arjen has ever put out (although, need to give all the other items in his incredibly extensive discography another listen, there are so fucking many though). Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Pretty State Machine Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:38:18 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5801&msg_id=5966 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5801&msg_id=5803 ...the answer to the last question is 42 (sigh). Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Pretty State Machine Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:56:32 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5801&msg_id=5803 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5801&msg_id=5801 The Theory of Everything - this one is going to be tough to rate, it's like one massive double album-length song... or four 20+ minute long songs, according to wikipedia. So many sub 2-minute clips, WHY DIVIDE IT UP, ARJEN?? Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Pretty State Machine Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:10:27 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5801&msg_id=5801