TERRIA

Maybe there's some secret I'm not privy to but this album is totally boring in my opinion. I consider Ocean Machine and Infinity among my all-time top favourite albums released by anyone and I truly believe that if you rate this album higher than those that your ears are painted on. This album is slow, bland, and vague and features absolutely no juicy bits. I consider Physicist to be vastly superior to this one. I just don't get it and I have tried probably at least once a year since its release to give it a fresh listen and I find it just sounds overly simplistic, 'national-anthemy' and completely dull. Not one song on this strikes me as memorable or speaks to me at all and I actually find it incredibly hard to listen to.

I feel bad for some of the regular prog folk who see its overinflated rating and think that this is a good entry point to Devin's music. I'd strongly recommend trying the preceding albums first or albums from the Addicted to Transcendence period over this. I wish I could like it, I really do. It came along at a time when he was releasing incredible album after incredible album and this one really put me off his music for quite a few years sorry to say.