*sigh*.

i'll give it a few more listens.

but, my first impression is that they took a couple of six-seven minute songs and played them at half speed. so, every song looks like an opus, when it's actually just an average-lengthed tool song slowed down from six minutes to eleven minutes.

and, the way i'm feeling about it is that, because everything is happening so slowly, it's, overall, sort of boring.

like i say: i'll give it a bit longer, but i can tell if something's a grower, and this is not a grower. this is just played too slowly to be compelling.