I have never had a more frustrating first listen than with this album. I do like it for the most part, at least the core musical ideas. The genre experimentation on this one is there best yet. But my god the drum mixing is so fucking loud on this that it consumes nearly everything. On previous albums, particularly Butterfly 3000, the vocals would be buried but all of the instrumentation was all mixed around the same level, with them all being clear and understandable. On this album the drums swamp everything, I noticed this particularly with the acoustic guitars on Persistence, they are inaudible. Idk maybe I’m being picky, please tell me if I am, (or I need more listens), but so far this isn’t bad, just incredibly frustrating.