THE DETACHED

a difficult one for me to review/ rate. falling as it does between Andromeda Unchained (arguably the band's best effort to date) and the self-titled Anubis Gate (a great album in its own right), The Detached has:

some fantastic stuff: Yiri, Dodecahedron, Pyramids, Out of Time, Options - Going Nowhere

and some average stuff: Lost In Myself, Bloodoath, Find a Way (Or Make One) (which are all not bad songs but sound suspiciously like some of their other songs, so i cant quite figure out what i'm listening to) and A Lifetime to Share (again, not bad but i'm always tempted to skip to the next track, so i don't really remember what it sounds like!)

in any case, the good stuff far outweighs the not so good stuff, so i would say 3.5 stars rounded off to a 4.