Srsly? I've found every song I've heard so far to be a complete mess of random riffs and time signature changes without any real concern for the entirety of the song. It seems like they're trying way too hard, and it's just tiresome to listen to.
Could be the rest of the album is better though, so I'll reserve final judgement until I've heard all of it.
EDIT: Having, umm, "obtained" a copy of the album I hope to god this is isn't the actual final mix. It's turned up and compressed to the point that it's actually frickin' clipping half the time. The levels are absolutely pegged at maximum at every frequency. I'm only three songs in and already my head hurts. Ugh...
The album is awesome (imo) but the production is indeed shite. It's not bad enough that my head hurts though, but in several places its very bad.
I really cant believe they could f**k up the CD so badly on the best thing they have written for 20 years.
I, like a lot of people, am hoping that it sounds FAR better on Vinyl.
There seems to be the exactly the same issue on the latest Bloc Party album. The waveform of the CD version is exactly the same as the one you posted, but the Vinyl version is fine.
Despite all the production issues i still cant stop listening to it though There really are some killer tracks on this one . All Nightmare Long and The Judas Kiss are just brilliant.
Yeah, if this is how CDs are going to be mastered in this day and age I may have to go out and buy myself a turntable before I go nuts. I still can't believe any professional sound engineer would sign off on an atrocity like that though. Has to be the rip that's fudged. Has to be.
