Not as good as Silence but almost close to being perfect!

Review Score: (8/10)
I updated my review after a month, and here goes my new review:

After listening to this album for a few weeks my opinion has changed about for the better. I still think Silence is a better album, this one deserves a 4 star, or somewhere between 4 and 5 -since I gave Silence 5 stars-. I absolutely think these guys are brilliant and therefore had me spoiled with their music, now I have so high expectations from them. so perhaps I am unjustly punishing them !!

The main thing that kept me from giving 5 stars to this one was because I couldn't shake off the feeling that some songs sounded as if they were rushed for the recording. For example,the ending Silver Tongue is horrible. I can not understand how a fantastic song like Silver Tongue can have such an end. The devil is in the details!

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