Too bad the rest of the album has zero energy. I literally fall asleep during every track until Flexorcist starts. Then I fall back to sleep the second Casablancas starts singing in Perseverance. The lyrics in this project are some of his best but Like All Before You literally fails at being anything like it's predecessors.
@@iceyroo I just think it’s too much of a parody. Not going to pull a Fantano and call the mixing a mess since it’s why Tyranny and parts of Virtue are so cool. Square Wave, 7 Horses, and Perseverance - 1C2S (I like that last song title though. Good political take) just bog down the record hard. When Will the Time of These Bastards End also has this problem but I find the song so bafflingly stupid, just by the title alone, that I give it a pass - so bad it’s good.
The pacing problems on Flexorcist are not an issue, with me. I quite love the halloween/Stranger Things pandering aesthetic, if it isn’t taken too far. The album version with the 40 second little instrumental is a bit odd. You can tell Casablancas was on auto-pilot during production of the album sequencing. Spectral Analysis is cool, but my gripe is that it’s the only full track that doesn’t mutate in any way and I wish it transitioned into Felxorcist, because it is kind of obvious they should be connected in some way. Prophecy of the Dragon is probably the second best track, here. The guitar arpeggios in the lighter passages are really interesting, but aside from that this lead single just sounds derivative of Pyramid of Bones or something. “Here comes the flood” is a spine-tingling finishing line but the spastic guitar riff gets annoying. All the Same has a great verse with jaunty rhythms and Casablanca’s most enthused vocal deliveries, aside from Felxorcist again I suppose. The chorus is bloated and that little crude melody in the post-chorus is grating. Otherwise, a solid single that turns into Square Wave halfway through for no reason lol. The untitled, hidden, b-side that was shipped with All the Same as a single sounds better than majority of the record lol. And that is literally every song on the album, sans Overture and Walk Off - which I think are cool but that kind of leitmotif only works if it’s more than two times, and maybe sequenced a but more cinematically. I just think the album is literally void of life (pun not intended I cannot explain the answer better). I love Flexorcist, though. Thanks for hearing me out.
Also just wanted to mention a gripe I have the album’s aesthetics. It reeks of New Wave, which usually isn’t a bad thing. Just think it’s a reappropriated piece of pop culture that has lost all its original meaning, because people like Casablancas keep infusing it with indie rock, for some reason. Stuff like this is kind of why the No Wave scene was created by Brian Eno, and we got bands that Brad loves, like Swans lol.
that's the thing about alot of voidz song, especially with flexorcist and the eternal tao for me At first I thought "ehhh it kinda sucks" but after a few listens I got totally hooked on them, and somehow they never get boring no matter how many times you listen
