This album has quite a few flaws imo. It's not any more consistent than MTM although the various interludes attempt to conceal this. The theme isn't that fleshed out and isn't that interesting, to me. It's nowhere near as abstract sounding as the band made it out to be and a lot of the songs are still very regimented and even dare I say contrived in places.
Well, they did mention in the MOATS documentary that one of the songs was submitted for final mixing when it was meant to be in the mixer shoot-out. Maybe "The Catalyst" was that particular track?
I agree with the bolded parts for songs like BITS, Iridescent, W&K and The Messenger to an extent. The latter 3 songs really took away from the focus of the album as a whole.
I don't understand, why is it a poor mix? If theres one thing I "dislike" about the album is how clean it sounds. But maybe thats just because most of the sounds are from keyboards...
Fallout and the Catalyst should have been merged together as just one track for the album version. Fallout isn't very impressive on its own, but in front of the catalyst it somehow becomes epic.... "... So don't apologize, I'm losing what I don't deserve... What I don't deserve..." *creepy snyth transitions into the opening of the catalyst*
That would have been too long of an intro for The Catalyst. Plus it surely would have placed The Catalyst near 7 or perhaps even over 7 minutes long
ya so it's probably best to be 2 separate tracks, it's just that Fallout is a tiny bit too long for me
One shudders to think of it! A seven-minute song! Nay, I say! If the song were seven minutes long, we'd have to listen to the song for seven minutes before it was over! And what then? WHAT THEN?!
7 minutes is far too long! We'd resort to eating our shoes, or maybe even cannibalism if we are to survive.