MOUSE

This album does everything wrong that it amazes me how people can hail it to such a high regard! The vocals are awfully trying to imitate Peter Gabriel and fail to do so successfully. The substitution of a real, human, drummer and bassist by these synthesized and computerized instruments for their entire duration of this album really makes me hate this one all the more. I wish that they had just focused more on melody-led songs rather than utilizing this awfully computerized rhythm section. And while the album has been in the works for a long while, the resulting product simply overstays its welcome almost right from the start and it provides little to now enjoyment throughout its arduous runtime. This one just drives home the point that it's excruciatingly hard to find proper progressive-rock from Australia...

One star, no doubt.