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This album gave me a couple chuckles, but not good ones. I seriously can't believe how Steven has literally been going downhill since The Raven That Refused To Sing, it's sad because at that time he was seriously the best progressive rock artist in the world.

While Hand. Cannot. Erase. wasn't in my favorites, it was still a very enjoyable album. Same with To The Bone, even if it was a little bit more pop oriented. I personally don't have any problem with pop in fact, it's not like I'm giving this album a low rating just because it's pop or alternative rock. The reason is that this isn't very good pop/alternative and no, this album isn't progressive in any way.

As a very pop/alternative-oriented album, you should expect very cohesive tracks. Songs like Self for example, revolve around repeating an idea or melody that's supposed to be catchy. I personally found it to be pretty funny because Steven's lyrics are really bad. But not in an Andy Tillison way, where they're so bad that they end up being fun and catchy. The video was cool though, that face effect was great.

While the singles really disappointed me, I was really looking forward to the nine-minute track "Personal Shopper", since in the last album, To The Bone, the long track was the best work from the album and it really carried the whole disc. I decided to ignore the single because it was a radio-cut and radio-cuts are awful.

Yeah, it wasn't great. It wasn't memorable in the slightest and not a single melody stood with me after listening it. If I remember right, there's a part where Elton John starts saying household items (?). I don't know if that meant to be funny or if it's meant to show me that I'm a consumer, which is the type of people that this album criticizes most of the time, along with capitalism (ironic).

So, since I rated Hand. Cannot. Erase. three stars and it's much better than this, i makes sense that I rate this album two stars. I mean it's not poor, but it's not impressive either. It's just a mediocre pop album. Two Stars.

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