LogFAQs > #975428973

First listen down. I... really don't "get it." It's certainly interesting, at times extremely engaging and at others utterly murderous on my ears, though I like it more as the album goes on. There's nothing to describe it. What's noticeable is how different musically this is than the last Mike Patton album we did (FNM Angel Dust).

All this said, after my first listen, I don't know if I can rank this. Not because I hate it, but because this feels like an art rock concerto, in this case meaning a single piece of various movements lasting approximately an hour. This makes it hard to discern where one track ends and the next starts. This is one of those albums where the tracks don't work by themselves as well as they do as a cohesive unit. Albums like that are the hardest to rank and I've opted out of such works before.

I will give another listen but I will only have time for two this week, given the length of this.