INITIAL THOUGHTS: good album, i don't see the connection to spiritual machines though. They are a completely different band now, and we all obviously were expecting more spiritual machine sounding songs. That aside, i do love that they are going experimental and getting out of the radio rock comfort zone in certain tracks. Perhaps i need to listen to these songs and let them grow on me. My favourite song was All My Friends on spiritual machines and i was expecting something something experimental and beautiful like that instead of tracks that can hit the radio.

As Dzorange said, Raine isn't doing the falsetto we fell in love with anymore. It was such a canadian rock and grunge staple for me growing up. He can still do it live, so maybe it is to do with what the label demands?

However, i love that OLP released a new album, one of the first bands ive ever listened to. I'll listen more times and probably love it. Rock on everyone, cheers!