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Universal acclaim- based on 51 Ratings
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Oct 11, 2010I would definitely agree on the title of this album after the juggernaut releases of "Alaska" and "Colors". I was mildly disappointed in this album the way a fat guy realizes hes been eating sugar free gravy. Musically, they always show up, but it also sounds like they are trying to hard to please art school girls. You arent Tom Waits. Stick to metal.
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It's an experience, to say the least. At the same time, The Great Misdirect is the type of overblown record that asks the question, "Is there such thing as being too ambitious?"
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As the album stretches on, it's hard not to notice that some of the unbridled enthusiasm that made Alaska and Colors the heavy, heady trips that they were has been sacrificed. That's forgivable. The type of a maturation process that Between the Buried and Me has embarked on is never easy, and the record shows that few bands from rock's progressive edges pull it off.
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Between the Buried and Me have refined their sound and improved their songwriting ten-fold, and while The Great Misdirect may not match "The Silent Circus'" raw energy and intensity, it might be their most coherent album yet.