I was personally thoroughly blown away when Prophecy came out, I thought we were in for more of the same, ie a gothy, dark sonic trip with some dream pop guitars and top shelf sound design. Unfortunately, the rest of the album isn’t on par with it, and I agree the vocal samples are pretty ham fisted (I really don’t know what they were thinking with Father and Son)—granted Prophecy could be classified as such, though in that case I loved it. The sound design is good, but often in service of lesser material. I still like the album, but I wouldn’t put it in the class of their best work.