IN ABSENTIA

For those who qualify this band as a "psychedelic prog" band you are sorely mistaken. How can one trip out to something that throws its "muzak" at you so abrasively? IMHO this album was a waste of my twelve dollars. I've tried, again and again, to get into this album but fail. It's not the crunchy guitars or anything the music is just lacking. Nothing is particularly interesting. It trades off between over-effected guitars to over-produced vocals to boring ambient sequences. Moreover, I find very little about this album to be progressive no lengthy instrumental passages; no concept to the album; no abstract lyrics. This is hard rock of the mediocre variety. The catchy chords and sticky tunes are what give the album its two stars for even if you are bored you still may get some of it stuck in your head. Overrated at best.