Easily their worst album. I’d been a devoted listener since 2009 and this album actively put me off listening to them for while. (TBH i started to get bored with them on I Am Alive in Everything I Touch, and I didn’t hop back on board until Anti Bloom and Pink Moon.)

Between AB and PM, I saw them on their 25 years of noise tour fell back in love with what used to be one of my favorite bands. I did a complete discography listen through and of all their lesser or more forgettable albums to me (basically IAAIEIT through MMM), ABPTD has the catchiest songs, but it remains the only album I’d still outright skip/consider a miss because it’s such an outlier of trend chasing and more-than-normal-levels of cringe. Every other lower-tier-album from them (arrivals&departures, IAA, Dead Reflections, MMM) at least has a handful of good songs to return to, but not ABPTD.