THE END IS BEAUTIFUL

The song "The End Is Beautiful" is amazing, a near-perfect song and my favorite Echolyn song ever, but one song cannot salvage an entire album and overall I find this album as inaccessible and unengaging as every other Echolyn album I've ever heard--and the themes and melodies seem only to repeat themselves over the course of the band's career. I have tried so many of their albums and just cannot pierce their "code," yet I keep trying for the sake of so many reviewers who love their music as well as for the sake of my own long-standing aversion to the music of what has become a now-favorite band of mine, GENTLE GIANT. But I can't seem to get there--in spite of the title song.