I love both!
HW looks fucking sick, though I much prefer the vinyl version and maybe even the deluxe cd version.
72S tells a powerful story that really resonates with me. The yellow had to grow on me for a while but now I’m into it. Seeing the two Copenhagen shows last week really solidified that
Too bad, those guys are chill as fuck. Flew in from Norway for the shows myself and I’m just in love with the people and that amazing city!
Mad respect for you traveling that far to see the boys. Amazing set lists both nights too
72S is more consistently good. Hardwired has some of the best tracks they've written, and maybe a couple of the worst(ish). 72S doesn't hit the heights of Hardwired, but it doesn't descend to Hardwired's lows.
I think Inamorata is a more coherent song, but Halo is also sick. Atlas is really high point but Shadows Follows equal that. In my opinion Lux easily gets hardwired. The lowest is sadly Murder One and I think Crown of Barbed Wire is better. Also Darkness, Chasing Light etc. are on average better. Manunkind and Savage are more experimental and I think they are not really classic Metallica style especially Manunkind. Both albums are good but 72S is more listenable for me. But I like both.
Hate is a strong word. I listened to it several times, none of the songs are *bad*, but none really stuck out to me as something really great or memorable.
Well they played a few of the 72S songs live in Helsinki and you could tell the crowd didn't care about those too much. Hardwired still had some good songs but for some reason 72S is just missing something. Saying this as a not too big of a Metallica fan, but their early music really still kicks ass and I enjoy it from time to time.
72 is better than Hardwired for me. The guitar tone on Hardwired sounds artificial or like an amp plugin. 72 has that breath and it sounds more organic to my ears. Like a real amp. I also think Hardwired is pretty good but there’s songs that bring it way down. Now that we’re dead is kinda mid to me and the corny shit they did live just left a sour taste for that song. Moth and Atlas are both bangers. Dream No more is decent but I think You Must Burn beats it for the slow heavy slot on the album. Halo is really great. Confusion is also pretty cool even tho the intro is just ripping off Am I Evil. ManUnkind was mid in the studio but it was actually cool live. Here Comes Revenge is pretty badass riffage. Am I Savage? is too sludgy for my taste even tho the verse riff is pretty menacing. Murder one is really bad to my ears. Spit out the Bone is really good but live they couldn’t really keep up with it.
72 seasons starts out with an amazing title track. Shadows Follow is also really tight and bad ass sounding. Screaming Suicide is Metallica sporting their NWOBHM influences and it’s so fire to me. Sleep Walk My Life away is also really rhythmic and pounding and the lyrics are great. You Must Burn! is probably the best Metallica song since TBA. It got an insane reaction when I saw it in theaters. Everyone erupted in applause and some people even got on their feet. Lux is great. Metallica sporting their NWOBHM influence again. Crown of barbed wire is so badass and menacing and it’s cool to hear another Kirk riff make in onto the album which I think is what was missing from Hardwired. Chasing Light is also really great chorus and has some great chugging with a positive message. If Darkness had a Son is a pretty meh for me. Just can’t get into it even tho the drumming during the verse is cool. Too Far Gone is probably my favorite on the album and has a glimpse of the Death Magnetic Metallica showing its face. I feel like the intro of that song sounds like a DM song. Room of Mirrors is also a straight up lyrical banger. and Inamorata is a masterpiece. So yea I think 72 is better.
Lacks soul? To each their own but I hear James chronicling his addiction from start to finish.
First lyric: Feeding on the wrath of man
Last lyric: Misery, she's not what I'm living for, *NO, NO*
I'd argue this is the most soulful Metallica has ever been. It's not just death, war and machismo and it tells a coherent story.
You should probably go back and listen to Load and Reload more... James basically chronicles his struggles with various addictions and his relationship with his dead mother through Load. Reload deals a lot with the perils of fame, addiction, and depression. St. Anger is all about addiction and the disappointment of achieving your dreams and still feeling angry, resentful, and bitter. Each of those albums tells a coherent story on some level and those stories feel a lot more honest than 72 Seasons does.
I just don't think 72 Seasons is even close to their most soulful album. It just feels off. I can't tell if it's something about the production (which is weird cause I love Hardwired and they're very similar), the lyrics, the pace of the songs... I keep hoping it will grow on me but it definitely feels like their weakest effort for some reason. It's the album I've revisited the least (and I love all their other stuff, including St. Anger and I don't count Lulu). Maybe it'll click for me on a re-listen but I'm not getting what you're getting out of it at all.
I can only take so many phrases ending in -tion over and over. Musically it’s incredibly lacking as well. Without the Metallica name, it would hardly get a listen
To me, album version of 72 sounds like it’s missing organic flow, like it’s just riffs arranged cut and paste on a computer. Live, on the other hand, sounds awesome.
Spot on analysis. Listened to it once and was bored to tears.
And no I don't need to listen to it again to be able to grasp it, it's basic af it's not like I'm listening to Frank Zappa or anything.
I disagree on the physical packaging. I thought it was some of the best I've seen in vinyl packaging in a while. It has that die-cut inner gatefold. The portraits of James, Kirk, Lars, and Rob are quite striking and feel vulnerable, akin to the emotions emitted on the album itself. Listening on vinyl adds another layer of the genuineness that makes me personally love this album.
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Hardwired is good, besides a few riffs and Lux itself as a song I did not find much to like this time around which is the first time they has happened with me with a Metallica album.
I genuinely love both albums. I think I would give the slight edge to Hardwired, but that's not a slight to 72 Seasons. My only gripe with 72 Seasons is (like others have mentioned) that cover art. It's not the worst thing in the world but it's not the greatest either.
I've listen through 72 seasons once. I genuinely do not like it, maybe 1 or two songs I can tolerate but I will not go out of my way to listen to.
Hardwired all the way if I HAD to choose one
72S is more consistent, but that does not mean good, St. Anger is consistent too, for all that matters. Hardwired has more distinguishable hits, but also more distinguishable flops like Murder One. I still go with Hardwired.
Hardwired has a special place in my heart because it was the first Metallica album that came out that I listened once I became a de facto Metallica fan.
72 Seasons didn't like at first but it's growing on me and I like it a little more each time I listen to it.
CHASE THAT LIGHT!
72 Seasons is a top 6 Metallica album IMO
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IMO as a guitar player myself both albums lack a lot of decent solos. I can't really think of many moments on either albums where the solos actually elevated the songs which is what they're supposed to do.
Considering Kirk has written masterpieces like the One solo, RTL and Disposable Heroes we know he can do it but for the last few years he's always talking about improvising and it pains to me say it, the man was one of the main influences that started me playing but he's just not very good at it.
I get what he's trying to do but the result is always just some random noodling that really doesn't fit the song at all. I think he should go back to writing them out and taking his time, like how he did with the Unforgiven solo.
2008
But to answer the post properly, 2016. Hardwired has more soul than 72 seasons. While I will say that 72S is more consistent in quality, Hardwired's best makes it better even though it also has a few duds.
Just glad they got back to making music. Discovered load/reload in high school. As a 34 year old, hearing both HW and 72 Seasons, I keep finding gems. My favorite part of Metallica.
Both. Hardwired was the album that cemented Metallica as my absolute favorite, 72 just seems like an extension...but a good album in its own right.
I love Too Far Gone and Halo On Fire? When it gets to 6:11? It's the sweet spot for me.
For me, 72 Seasons is better overall. There are 4 tracks on the disc that I think are really crap, but otherwise I like the album and still enjoy listening to it. Hardwired shouldn't have been a double album. Apart from Hardwired, Atlas Rise, Moth into Flame, Spit out the Bone, Halo on Fire, they're just fillers that are boring. I prefer 72 Seasons.
To ME and to MY finely tuned Metallica ears, the production sounds cleaner on Hardwired and the volume is louder without clipping or entering the whole “loudness wars” category as did Death Magnetic. I’ve played guitar for over 20 years and I’m a sound junkie who’s always had large high quality music systems in my trucks and in my home. Let me see if I can explain what I hear effectively.
I can listen to Hardwired (any track) on volume number 22 on my Alpine receiver in my truck and everything is very powerful/loud/clear/full.
I can the touch ZERO settings on the receiver, proceed to listen to 72 Seasons. I notice immediately and it’s pretty drastic that I have to bump the volume up to 28 for it to reach the same sound/loudness levels as Hardwired. But I’ve also entered the territory where the sound then starts getting compressed and the quality has dropped off quite a bit.
This doesn’t matter if I listen to my physical media such as CDs or the premium high quality files streaming from my Amazon Music subscription. It’s the same exact results of if I compare the two albums in my home as well or on anyone else’s audio sources.
So to me…….Hardwired from an audio standpoint is far superior. Let me know what y’all think!
Hardwired has more memorable songs, though it's been out longer so there's that - but 72 sounds like classic Metallica, it doesn't sound like Metallica inspired by Metallica like DM and HW, it sounds like classic 'tallica made a return, if that makes sense
It's really hard to compare these two albums, it's really a matter if you prefer incredible tracks with a mix of crappy ones or if you like consistency more, at the cost of not reaching the same highs.
I feel if it wasn't for the fact it's their latest album, no one would really talk much about 72 Seasons and over time I think the album will be kinda forgotten except for its more notable songs like Room of Mirrors, Inamorata or Lux Æterna. Despite its flaws, I think Hardwired is a much more memorable album, and I think that's better than being boring.
~~Death Magnetic beats them both anyways~~
I wish the album art was better on these two
Agreed. I like the Hardwired concept but would've loved a more hand drawn look to it like the old Pushead stuff
I just hate when artists put themselves on covers. And this is just looks dumb. 72 seasons is a little better. The yellow is too bright
idk some albums do it well like feel the fire by overkill
I love both! HW looks fucking sick, though I much prefer the vinyl version and maybe even the deluxe cd version. 72S tells a powerful story that really resonates with me. The yellow had to grow on me for a while but now I’m into it. Seeing the two Copenhagen shows last week really solidified that
hardwired is cheesy as fuck but its alright i suppose 72 seasons just hurts to look at
I also saw them in Copenhagen! Flew all the way from the US for that show
Yo are you by any chance the guy I talked to outside the venue in the beer line on sunday? Chilling with your danish buddy?
I didn't make any danish friends unfortunately so I'm afraid not.
Too bad, those guys are chill as fuck. Flew in from Norway for the shows myself and I’m just in love with the people and that amazing city! Mad respect for you traveling that far to see the boys. Amazing set lists both nights too
I sat next to a guy from Norway during the show. Are you bald by chance?
Hardwired is cool as hell. 72S not so much.
The album cover in Hardwired is such a masterpiece!
Agreed, and it's one of my favorite Metallica Albums. It's heavy AF 🤘🏻
I can't stand the black and yellow for the current album.
I love both, but I choose 72 Seasons
72S is more consistently good. Hardwired has some of the best tracks they've written, and maybe a couple of the worst(ish). 72S doesn't hit the heights of Hardwired, but it doesn't descend to Hardwired's lows.
The second half of Hardwired up to SOTB makes me want to fall asleep. It's like the ReLoad of modern Metallica.
Doesn’t hit the highs? Inamorata says otherwise.
I love Inamorata, but imo, it doesn't beat Halo on Fire.
I think Inamorata is a more coherent song, but Halo is also sick. Atlas is really high point but Shadows Follows equal that. In my opinion Lux easily gets hardwired. The lowest is sadly Murder One and I think Crown of Barbed Wire is better. Also Darkness, Chasing Light etc. are on average better. Manunkind and Savage are more experimental and I think they are not really classic Metallica style especially Manunkind. Both albums are good but 72S is more listenable for me. But I like both.
Hardwired.
all the way listened to 72 Seasons twice once in cinema once at home. Hated most of it. Hardwired is awesome though.
Hate is a strong word. I listened to it several times, none of the songs are *bad*, but none really stuck out to me as something really great or memorable.
Well they played a few of the 72S songs live in Helsinki and you could tell the crowd didn't care about those too much. Hardwired still had some good songs but for some reason 72S is just missing something. Saying this as a not too big of a Metallica fan, but their early music really still kicks ass and I enjoy it from time to time.
Crowds usually don't care about new songs with big bands anymore sadly.
Some tracks from Hardwired are underrated, I really liked Am I savage
Absolutely! The bridge part and the laughter at the end are fantastic
This and Manunkind doesn’t feel like Metallica but they are cool experimental songs.
I can’t believe it’s been 8 years since hardwired came out
I can't believe it's been almost 20 since Death Magnetic.
[удалено]
The four years that I'm off really bothers you, eh?
[удалено]
I can’t explain but hardwired never did it for me. 72 Seasons clicked with me from the first listens.
Hardwired definitely, but 72 seasons is pretty great too, so I suppose I really like Hardwired! :)
72 is better than Hardwired for me. The guitar tone on Hardwired sounds artificial or like an amp plugin. 72 has that breath and it sounds more organic to my ears. Like a real amp. I also think Hardwired is pretty good but there’s songs that bring it way down. Now that we’re dead is kinda mid to me and the corny shit they did live just left a sour taste for that song. Moth and Atlas are both bangers. Dream No more is decent but I think You Must Burn beats it for the slow heavy slot on the album. Halo is really great. Confusion is also pretty cool even tho the intro is just ripping off Am I Evil. ManUnkind was mid in the studio but it was actually cool live. Here Comes Revenge is pretty badass riffage. Am I Savage? is too sludgy for my taste even tho the verse riff is pretty menacing. Murder one is really bad to my ears. Spit out the Bone is really good but live they couldn’t really keep up with it. 72 seasons starts out with an amazing title track. Shadows Follow is also really tight and bad ass sounding. Screaming Suicide is Metallica sporting their NWOBHM influences and it’s so fire to me. Sleep Walk My Life away is also really rhythmic and pounding and the lyrics are great. You Must Burn! is probably the best Metallica song since TBA. It got an insane reaction when I saw it in theaters. Everyone erupted in applause and some people even got on their feet. Lux is great. Metallica sporting their NWOBHM influence again. Crown of barbed wire is so badass and menacing and it’s cool to hear another Kirk riff make in onto the album which I think is what was missing from Hardwired. Chasing Light is also really great chorus and has some great chugging with a positive message. If Darkness had a Son is a pretty meh for me. Just can’t get into it even tho the drumming during the verse is cool. Too Far Gone is probably my favorite on the album and has a glimpse of the Death Magnetic Metallica showing its face. I feel like the intro of that song sounds like a DM song. Room of Mirrors is also a straight up lyrical banger. and Inamorata is a masterpiece. So yea I think 72 is better.
Hardwired. Has some genuine thrash classics. 72 seasons wasn't my thing.
Hardwired
I like both but I’m more of a Hardwired guy myself.
Hardwired is the Home Alone 2 to Death Magnetic. And 72 Seasons is Home Alone 3.......
LOL THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE
Hardwired was a true comeback. 72s is the AI version. Generic, unfinsihed, lacks soul.
Lacks soul? To each their own but I hear James chronicling his addiction from start to finish. First lyric: Feeding on the wrath of man Last lyric: Misery, she's not what I'm living for, *NO, NO* I'd argue this is the most soulful Metallica has ever been. It's not just death, war and machismo and it tells a coherent story.
True, but I don't believe Metallica has ever been defined by only death, war, and machismo.
Imagine those lyrics with another 6 months of development. They sound unfinsihed. The ideas are great, the result shouldn't have left the workshop.
I think the album is overproduced. Some songs could’ve been shorter. And they would’ve benefited from 6 months of waiting IMO too.
You should probably go back and listen to Load and Reload more... James basically chronicles his struggles with various addictions and his relationship with his dead mother through Load. Reload deals a lot with the perils of fame, addiction, and depression. St. Anger is all about addiction and the disappointment of achieving your dreams and still feeling angry, resentful, and bitter. Each of those albums tells a coherent story on some level and those stories feel a lot more honest than 72 Seasons does. I just don't think 72 Seasons is even close to their most soulful album. It just feels off. I can't tell if it's something about the production (which is weird cause I love Hardwired and they're very similar), the lyrics, the pace of the songs... I keep hoping it will grow on me but it definitely feels like their weakest effort for some reason. It's the album I've revisited the least (and I love all their other stuff, including St. Anger and I don't count Lulu). Maybe it'll click for me on a re-listen but I'm not getting what you're getting out of it at all.
Nah, your opinion is valid. 72S was not that special, yet people keep viewing the album through rose-colored lenses just because it’s Metallica.
I can only take so many phrases ending in -tion over and over. Musically it’s incredibly lacking as well. Without the Metallica name, it would hardly get a listen
To me, album version of 72 sounds like it’s missing organic flow, like it’s just riffs arranged cut and paste on a computer. Live, on the other hand, sounds awesome.
this is the only valid take. Though I'd argue DM was the comeback, despite having terrible production
Spot on analysis. Listened to it once and was bored to tears. And no I don't need to listen to it again to be able to grasp it, it's basic af it's not like I'm listening to Frank Zappa or anything.
72 seasons is a much stronger record than Hardwired. Both have shite album covers.
Thank you for saying it.
Hardwired is great, but 72 Seasons was perfect for me. The hype for the album was unreal and the music, for me at least, is also amazing
72 seasons is my favorite, I just love the album look and Vibe with the yellow. Yellow is always a standout color.
I would have said Hardwired, but tbh 72 seasons really grown on me in the past few months so I'm gonna go with both here
I do prefer hardwired, but I do think 72 seasons is still amazing. Hardwired just hits different
I prefer 72 seasons.
72, no bad songs. Hardwired, 3-4 likeable and rest generic. So, 72 ftw. (Also Chasing Light riff is one of the best riffs ever, fight me)
Learned Chasing Light on guitar recently and that riff is so fun to play and 72 Seasons (album) is all very easy to play which is cool.
I have loved all album artworks until Hardwired. HW and 72S are just atrocious in terms of album art and physical packaging.
I disagree on the physical packaging. I thought it was some of the best I've seen in vinyl packaging in a while. It has that die-cut inner gatefold. The portraits of James, Kirk, Lars, and Rob are quite striking and feel vulnerable, akin to the emotions emitted on the album itself. Listening on vinyl adds another layer of the genuineness that makes me personally love this album. https://preview.redd.it/ttoryc1y538d1.jpeg?width=1445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74f5cc32415d4ad8bcd8a2b8257e738fb4cba0e1
Hardwired is a better album but the live shows are much better now than 2016
Hardwired is good, besides a few riffs and Lux itself as a song I did not find much to like this time around which is the first time they has happened with me with a Metallica album.
I genuinely love both albums. I think I would give the slight edge to Hardwired, but that's not a slight to 72 Seasons. My only gripe with 72 Seasons is (like others have mentioned) that cover art. It's not the worst thing in the world but it's not the greatest either.
Hardwired is my favourite Metallica album
Hardwired was their best release since the black album, (and in my personal opinion, their best stuff since AJFA)
I love both, but Hardwired is one of their best albums. When the worst song on the album is the title track, you know it’s a good album.
I've listen through 72 seasons once. I genuinely do not like it, maybe 1 or two songs I can tolerate but I will not go out of my way to listen to. Hardwired all the way if I HAD to choose one
Hardwired is much better IMO
Yeah, invent the fckin time machine already to go back 2016
Hardwired and it's not even close
okay. hear me out. BOTH?
Hardwired is so damn good, but 72. Istg 72 Seasons to me, is up in top 3 albums from Metallica. I FUCKING LOVE THIS ALBUM
Hardwired has higher highs but lower lows, 72S is a consistently good album
2016
72S ,just because hardwired has more misses for me
Death Magnetic, Hardwired ,72 my opinion..I’m a old metal head so I liked DM thrashiness
72S is more consistent, but that does not mean good, St. Anger is consistent too, for all that matters. Hardwired has more distinguishable hits, but also more distinguishable flops like Murder One. I still go with Hardwired.
Why is everything an either/or on here?
Hardwired has a special place in my heart because it was the first Metallica album that came out that I listened once I became a de facto Metallica fan. 72 Seasons didn't like at first but it's growing on me and I like it a little more each time I listen to it. CHASE THAT LIGHT!
Imo 72 seasons is better
72 Seasons is a top 6 Metallica album IMO https://preview.redd.it/nnurng4d208d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c4e46d7fce6052f21b37dcde53d37a71057b34b
IMO as a guitar player myself both albums lack a lot of decent solos. I can't really think of many moments on either albums where the solos actually elevated the songs which is what they're supposed to do. Considering Kirk has written masterpieces like the One solo, RTL and Disposable Heroes we know he can do it but for the last few years he's always talking about improvising and it pains to me say it, the man was one of the main influences that started me playing but he's just not very good at it. I get what he's trying to do but the result is always just some random noodling that really doesn't fit the song at all. I think he should go back to writing them out and taking his time, like how he did with the Unforgiven solo.
Hardwired, but 72S has been growing on me recently
Hardwired for me. No competition. 72 Seasons is just not doing it for me.
both.
2008 But to answer the post properly, 2016. Hardwired has more soul than 72 seasons. While I will say that 72S is more consistent in quality, Hardwired's best makes it better even though it also has a few duds.
2016 all the way
Just glad they got back to making music. Discovered load/reload in high school. As a 34 year old, hearing both HW and 72 Seasons, I keep finding gems. My favorite part of Metallica.
Lux is ok imo but hardwired was excellent very relatable album!
Hardwired was wayyy better IMO. But this has been a trend on later albums. Some good, some bad. I will let the kids decide for themselves.
Hardwired
HW for Lords of Summer
72 but spit out the bone is the best song out of any of these 2
72 by a mile imo
I haven’t listened to these two in full yet so I can really only base it off album covers 72 Seasons is so much better than Hardwired
Sorry hardwired is way better than 72 seasons
Both. Hardwired was the album that cemented Metallica as my absolute favorite, 72 just seems like an extension...but a good album in its own right. I love Too Far Gone and Halo On Fire? When it gets to 6:11? It's the sweet spot for me.
I love both albums but in terms of album art ig hardwired
2016
The high praise 72 gets here… what the fuck?
For me, 72 Seasons is better overall. There are 4 tracks on the disc that I think are really crap, but otherwise I like the album and still enjoy listening to it. Hardwired shouldn't have been a double album. Apart from Hardwired, Atlas Rise, Moth into Flame, Spit out the Bone, Halo on Fire, they're just fillers that are boring. I prefer 72 Seasons.
Both
To ME and to MY finely tuned Metallica ears, the production sounds cleaner on Hardwired and the volume is louder without clipping or entering the whole “loudness wars” category as did Death Magnetic. I’ve played guitar for over 20 years and I’m a sound junkie who’s always had large high quality music systems in my trucks and in my home. Let me see if I can explain what I hear effectively. I can listen to Hardwired (any track) on volume number 22 on my Alpine receiver in my truck and everything is very powerful/loud/clear/full. I can the touch ZERO settings on the receiver, proceed to listen to 72 Seasons. I notice immediately and it’s pretty drastic that I have to bump the volume up to 28 for it to reach the same sound/loudness levels as Hardwired. But I’ve also entered the territory where the sound then starts getting compressed and the quality has dropped off quite a bit. This doesn’t matter if I listen to my physical media such as CDs or the premium high quality files streaming from my Amazon Music subscription. It’s the same exact results of if I compare the two albums in my home as well or on anyone else’s audio sources. So to me…….Hardwired from an audio standpoint is far superior. Let me know what y’all think!
Hardwired has weirdest album art I ever seen lol
72 seasons is groovier while Hardwired is heavier
HTSD. 72S is just mid af
Spit out the bone remains the best thing they've done since 1988
That was just your life?
Either that or All Nightmare Long, The Day That Never Comes... I swear, people cockride the Bone a bit too much
Inamorata?
Unforgiven 1?
72 seasons by far
Hardwired has more memorable songs, though it's been out longer so there's that - but 72 sounds like classic Metallica, it doesn't sound like Metallica inspired by Metallica like DM and HW, it sounds like classic 'tallica made a return, if that makes sense
It's really hard to compare these two albums, it's really a matter if you prefer incredible tracks with a mix of crappy ones or if you like consistency more, at the cost of not reaching the same highs. I feel if it wasn't for the fact it's their latest album, no one would really talk much about 72 Seasons and over time I think the album will be kinda forgotten except for its more notable songs like Room of Mirrors, Inamorata or Lux Æterna. Despite its flaws, I think Hardwired is a much more memorable album, and I think that's better than being boring. ~~Death Magnetic beats them both anyways~~
HEHEHEHEHEHE, BEYOND MAGNETIC TOO
I liked Hardwired more than 72S
Hardwired had better solos and maybe vocals. 72 Seasons was better at everything else.
Idk. 72 Seasons has some of the best of James' vocals yet.
Hardwired. 72 seasons didn't do much for me
I think they are their two worst albums. Ascetically and sonically.
Mediocre