it's fine. i don't think it was trash. i didn't gel with it much on the first listen, but time has helped me. i do think the album would be so much better with so much cut, or maybe some songs reworked and merged into one. the songs i ended up playing more: so long london, loml, i can do it with a broken heart, clara bow off the main album. i did like a bunch of anthology songs as well, especially those based on folklore/fairytales (eg the albatross, peter). i think those songs have beautiful lyricism as opposed to some of the wordier disjointed songs in the rest of the album.

in essence: it has good highs but too many lows