So after loving #1 Album, I expected to really enjoy this album. But I’m not sure I could identify this album as something by the same band. It sounds like a band who forgot how to use a metronome or a mixing station while recording.

This is another case where I wonder if the fact that this album was created shortly before the band’s demise caused some kind of morbid fascination with the music. This seems to be a trend in critics’ ratings. This album seems to have been written during the band’s decline as well as the lead singer’s personal issues, which perhaps explains some of the unique emotion and energy contained in the meandering songs. But again, as I have asked before - if this album was released in a vacuum without the story behind it, would it have been rated so high? I have serious doubts. And believe me, I hate to say that when I’ve enjoyed this band’s other work so much.

Originally part of Understanding My Musical Taste With... Data!.