pretty meh. not necessarily bad, but not a lot of replay value. I do like the one and all riff and dorian despite its repetitiveness.
I actually did like the song writing on oceania. would have liked to have heard that material with jimmy. on a related note talking about Monuments being a few years removed now, how the hell was oceania 5 years ago? Wild to me to think how long "SP2" has been around. I mean there was 4.5-ish years between Gish and MCIS and it's just crazy to think the amount/quality of material put out in that period compared to past 5 years. I realize bands don't traditionally put out as much material in their later years and the fact that an album every 2 years in the 90s was fueled by record company contracts (perhaps one good thing of record companies from yesteryear keeping bands writing/putting out music and not too much time to think it over), but still it sucks for my aging ass to wrap my mind around it.
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