I completely forgot about this album. The 10-year anniversary t-shirt is cool enough to almost buy.
Agreed with some of the other posts that Quasar is unlistenable garbage. It tries to be a hard rocker but its much better alternative is the second track, Panopticon, which actually has a melody.
"The Celestials" feels right at home...on Zeitgeist. I legitimately enjoy My Love is Winter.. (I'm totally fine rocking along with "my love love is lost / my love is winter") From there on out, the album descends in terms of songs I connect to, until we finally reach Inkless.
It's (one of the?) last albums where Billy's lyrics aren't completely inscrutable Victorian-era word salads. One and a half thumbs up.
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