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I held off getting this album for many years because of it's ultra high rating, and Pawn Hearts is my favourite prog album so I kind of wanted to save the best for last. I saw the recent Charisma release as a sign it was time to get my face smashed off by the ultimate VDGG album!

I feel like this album is a step backwards from the hyper monster Pawn Hearts, though I have no idea where they could have possibly gone after? Godbluff is kind of a reset album, where they move back to a sure footing after reaching the absolute edge with Pawn Hearts, it feels like they reset a fair way back with the opening track, then make up massive ground through the album

It's taken a bunch of listening and thinking to give this album some of the love it deserves, as I was expecting a further progression of what they were building all the way to 'Pawn Hearts' (more fucked up jagged darkness) so on hearing the rather straight forward opener 'Undercover Man' I was off to a sour start, and found the rest of the album initially disappointingly tame and a bit normal (By VDGG standards), but now I've reeled my expectations back, and thought about how this album sits in relation to Pawn Hearts and Peters solo releases in-between, I think it does what it was supposed to do very well, and I think I can see clearer why some would take this over Pawn Hearts.

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