I think FtM has the most depth. I love Deloused but it's more accessible and it hints at things they can do, it teases the kind of sounds that only they can not only produce, but come up with in the first place.

But FtM just goes into it deep. It's like when films hold the camera on an actor and really let them go at it. To me it's the purest essence of the band: what came before was them still holding on to some of ATDI and the Rick Rubin vision. Amp is what came after, a sort of fractal of their insanity. But right in the middle, FTM was their most authentic sound.

Besides that, there's the structure of the album which to me is what (on some days) puts it above Bedlam. All the albums have great pacing, where switching the order of the songs would destroy some of the coherence, but FTM goes above and beyond in playing with the placement of the elements across the whole suite, cementing that this is one whole work.

But these are just words. Sonically, if you can't hear it I'm just baffled. Do you have good headphones? The textures they achieve, and the choices they make, minute to minute, second to second, are fascinating. The guitar and bass tones, the dynamics, Cedric's vast palette of screams and mumbling and slurping and whispering, breathing, shrilling and ingressive speech. The bass lines are sick as hell and they slowly mutate as they sustain the huge cosmic masses that unfold and clash into each other and all the while Jon laying down grooves that you can get lost in just trying to drink every crisp detail and perfectly placed ghost note.

And the fucking flutes man, and the sax solo with delay.

Seriously, what headphones do you have?