I didn't enjoy this. Nothing stood out. It was all pretty lame.
Like all of their late-catalog, there are moments of good guitar work, but the abundance of weird clean parts, dancey programmed drums, pop rock parts and the menagerie of variously styled, but ultimately saccharine, breathy and effects drenched vocals ruin it for me. This album, in particular, has more than you average number of pop-metal parts and there's a children's children's choir in multiple songs.
At times, it sounds like late period Offspring, of which I am also not a fan, although I would blast through an Offspring Challenge.
In light of how little this record impacted me, let's see what other people had to say:
Amazon 1-star Review:
I had the displeasure of listening to this album a few times in the past few days at work and on my commute. Unfortunately, this album was very poor compared to In Flames' other works... There isn't a single track from the album that I can recommend.
Amazon 5-star Review:
Great album. I heard other reviews claiming that there was a nu-metal touch, like that's a bad thing... Very mature and evolved album that follows their current trend of albums, only better.
Four reviews from Youtube, which I can only assume are, respectively, two positive reviews and two negative reviews:
It also teaches us that the Russians speak Spanish, and also that liking the new In Flames is un-American.
All in all. I think current In Flames sounds like they'd be the dopest, phatest, most turnt Christian Metal band. So bad. I'm so happy this is over. 0 Goats.
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