Absolute Garbage! This album is nothing but overly long song

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Absolute Garbage!

This album is nothing but overly long song after over long song, where each song has little to no development at all. Where are the new chord progressions in each song? Or did people suddenly decide that music should just consist of one chord progression throughout a song, while the singer rambles on. I might have heard some choruses in some songs, but I am not sure.

On top of this, the songs sound like Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible" which in turn sounded like Bruce Springsteen. So, why reward an album with critical acclaim that is for 1) Not Original 2) Repetitive 3) Boring.

When the only strength of a song is its lyrics, that is a problem. The merit of music is supposed to be based on the instrumentation, and if that is good, then the lyrics can be examined to see if the song is truly great. However, it seems a lot of critics these days put lyrics first and instrumentation second. If it sounds like a tribute to classic music, then they love it. If it sounds original, some may love it, but some may not get it.

I'd take a horrible sounding original song any day over a pleasant sounding unoriginal song.