This is one of my all time bands. I love Three Days Grace, but I don't love this. I don't even like it. I wondered if getting Matt Walst back would revitalise this record, but the opposite seemed to happen. Maybe the best thing to do would be to go and do solo work.

Seems like AURORA does no wrong. There's so much strong about this record, but it goes without saying that the backbone of what makes her records special is her vocals. The range on this album really impresses me and AURORA continues to deliver quiet and heartfelt songs as well as shivering, giant performances. The only thing to really look at is the length - until I look for a track that could be cut and I can't find one.

Some great highlights with some really quite forgettable tracks in between. Great vocals but I feel that's definitely no searing insight.

Yeah pretty mid

I'm reminded of my uncle hanging out at our place between Christmas and New Years, he'd had a little too much to drink and was discussing his marriage ending with my dad. The big lights were off and everything was lit up by the TV set playing; MTV was playing music videos non-stop, 90s and 2000s songs with blurry and overexposed composition. It wasn't Christmas music playing by that time in the evening but bands like Puddle of Mudd. I don't reallly know what that says about this album but the fact that I was right back in my 11 year old headspace certainly speaks to some of this album's quality. Generic is a bad word in many cases but in this case I think I mean it in the sense that it's highly illustrative of what this post-grunge era was like. The guitars on Out of My Head really show off what I mean. Nirvana comparisons are inevitable with vocals like these. However what really draws me is that much of this record brings Three Days Grace to mind, who are a personal favourite. I don't know that I'd sooner come back to this rather than just go listen to TDG but I definitely acknowledge that these folks hammered in the frets for that later bands' work. I should also note that Wes Scantlin is a dodgy guy.

Equal parts violent and horny. There's something really compelling here despite some admittedly quite scenery-chewing lyrics on some tracks. The instrumentation has some great balance between the industrial sound that NIN are known for, but I was surprised at some more reserved moments as well. There's an element of ambience under most of these tracks that makes it easy to understand Reznor's fork into soundtracking for film and video games. A good toothy listen.

Technically really well done but didn't really spark anything off me. Can't help but feel like I missed something. If it is sharp then today I must be dull.

Beats the too long album allegations by just kicking arse. Good skits and mixing, some really fun lyrics. Honestly just very consistent and it works very well. It's hard not to sound dumb about a smart album.

Really solid vocals that carry this whole thing. For being an hour long this didn't outstay it's welcome the way many records do. A lot of music I like is cinematic in feeling but this feels more like a TV show soundtrack. There's energy and it has a lot of variety in its structure There's even a very end credits feeling track second to last. Really enjoyed.

Really quite iffy. Failed to really get me in any kind of mood at all. These kids should have spent more time on Newgrounds.