SYSTEMATIC CHAOS

I'm still listening to this album and have yet to fully get used to it. Octavarium took me awhile to get into, but once I did I thought it was phenomenal. As of this moment I think this may be their weakest album since Falling into Infinity, but that doesn't mean its a bad album because DT always puts out kick a#s material. I hear a lot of music snobs who couldn't play anything on any instrument piss and moan about DT last few albums. I read one review on hear where someone said Scenes From a Memory had too many technical virtuoso parts on it! Lol! Also, anyone who compares Octavarium to Coldplay or U2 is on crack in my opinion. If you think Octavarium sounds like Coldplay then you must think Images and Words sounds like Dave Mathews!

I also hear people say this is the first album in awhile where you can hear the bass. I've never had a hard time hearing the bass on a DT album myself. SC has a much different feel than any other DT album and though it is 78 minutes, it feels like there isn't much substance here in many of the songs. You still get way more bang for your dollar here than with most albums you could spend money on. Anyway, this album seems to have some filler in it and it isn't as strong as the last few albums and I am actually for the first time since Falling into Infinity, disappointed a little, but I will still be at the DT concert in Cleveland in August!