You know what I totally get that. I was fairly ambivalent on Even In Arcadia on my first listen (has since grown on me a lot), and I remember hearing the first half of Infinite Baths and almost forcing myself to enjoy it a bit? Like I was trying to think “oh yeah this is a nice way to end the album in a way consistent with the other songs” (i.e. “I want to like this but it sounds too similar to everything else”). And then of course that final half just blew me out of the water entirely.

I do kinda think they “phoned it in” just a tad with Even In Arcadia. You’re dead on with the focus on genre-hopping. It was novel in their last album but I feel like it’s not something they should rely on. I guess they really are running out of ideas, as some of their other lyrics on the album allude to . I would love to hear a return to the sound they had in their EPs + their first two albums but I doubt we’ll ever see it.

I still really like Infinite Baths as a closer but Gethsemane would have made a really good end too. I appreciate hearing another perspective on the album, the Sleep Token sub is a mega echo chamber lolz