Yeah-- Coast, Terminal, and Lady Helen are definitely the big three tracks for me. Ki stands apart from the rest though, to me it's like a blast of yellow light in a light brown/tan soundscape with touches of blue. The heavy tracks just feel sort of... done, though. Like the slightly stale croutons from a day-old caesar salad somehow made their way into a wonderfully delicious fresh fruit salad. They just sound a little tired and don't hold my attention. Particularly some of the vocal melodies in the beginning of Gato just make me think they aren't going anywhere. It's extremely odd. I don't want to sound hateful, those three tracks just really stand out to me as kind of... speedbumps, I suppose.

~Josiah

Yeah-- Coast, Terminal, and Lady Helen are definitely the big three tracks for me. Ki stands apart from the rest though, to me it's like a blast of yellow light in a light brown/tan soundscape with touches of blue. The heavy tracks just feel sort of... done, though. Like the slightly stale croutons from a day-old caesar salad somehow made their way into a wonderfully delicious fresh fruit salad. They just sound a little tired and don't hold my attention. Particularly some of the vocal melodies in the beginning of Gato just make me think they aren't going anywhere. It's extremely odd. I don't want to sound hateful, those three tracks just really stand out to me as kind of... speedbumps, I suppose.

~Josiah

To each his own....I understand completely. I felt this way about Physicist at first.

Yeah-- Coast, Terminal, and Lady Helen are definitely the big three tracks for me. Ki stands apart from the rest though, to me it's like a blast of yellow light in a light brown/tan soundscape with touches of blue. The heavy tracks just feel sort of... done, though. Like the slightly stale croutons from a day-old caesar salad somehow made their way into a wonderfully delicious fresh fruit salad. They just sound a little tired and don't hold my attention. Particularly some of the vocal melodies in the beginning of Gato just make me think they aren't going anywhere. It's extremely odd. I don't want to sound hateful, those three tracks just really stand out to me as kind of... speedbumps, I suppose.

~Josiah

Wow, that is spot-on.

I was pretty disappointed with the album until Terminal came on. Disruptr and Gato sound like B-sides.

Lady Helen and Ki are perfect.

just to let you guys know, i'm working on a 'A Monday' Tab. about 75% through tabbing so far.
Sorry i cant finish it right now, just gotta go to work.
Hopefully, i'll get up here for you guys tonight (australia) or tomorrow.

I just listened to Heaven Send in Lossless with my Headset on. I absolutely love this song!!!

Now I'm in Heaven!

A good morning.

Light breakfast, subway, store, ki, subway, home... ki.

Heaven Send is just...

...

Just got it from HMV 20 minutes ago, listening to it for the first time at work now. Sounds good so far, nice and chilled out.

Edit: I can totally hear what Devin's talking about with the whole building up but never fully releasing thing. It's a refreshing change from what's come before.

I personally think the 3 "heavy" tracks fit the flow of the album just fine. I don't think I'd omit a single track from it, honestly...Gato is probably my least favorite track, but Disruptr and Heaven Send are awesome. Just as awesome for me as Coast, Lady Helen etc.

Josiah I love the crouton analogy

I personally think the 3 "heavy" tracks fit the flow of the album just fine. I don't think I'd omit a single track from it, honestly...Gato is probably my least favorite track, but Disruptr and Heaven Send are awesome. Just as awesome for me as Coast, Lady Helen etc.

I totally agree.

IT ARRIVED!!!!!

You're very welcome again Dev and Tracy and all at Hevy Devy.

Ripped it in .wav and listening with new ears on my 90W Logic 3 HD-Class speaker. (AKA - The Cube of DOOOOOOM!!!! )

Hooray for ambience!!!!
And if the kick drum was ever hard to hear on the download it aint no problem now.

I guess I'm one of the few that's delighted he downloaded it AND delighted he bought it too. It's almost like two entirely different albums for me now. I've recently ripped all the albums from CD to .wav and the later albums really, really benefit from it enormously. Especially the glorious, soaring melodies from Alien that I more imagined than heard when I used regular bitrate. All the ambience, subtle bass and backing vocals are there and clear as day. Don't even get me started on The Hummer. Parts of that album didn't exist until a few weeks ago for me.

GE-YAA!!!! I'm half way through Gato.
Can't type anymore.

I love you Dev.

In like a totally Hetero way....

...

... mostly

You can also rip/convert to FLAC, it's a much smaller format but still completely lossless, however we're not going to have that discussion again

It may well just be my imagination but I kinda hear a difference in the two.

It's cool though. I gots alot of memory.

Thanks though.

Can anything be actually "better" than listening to the CD on a good CD player /w headphones? Like a walkman?

Seems like to some degree there's always some sort of compromise when it comes to ripping it to a computer.