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I'm not even going to try and be cute about this review. No funny quips or comparisons or little anecdotes or jokes. Coheed don't put any thought into making an original album, so why should I put thought into coming up with an original review?

This album is awful. C&C are just taking the conventions of prog-rock bands that came before them, recycling them, and regurgitating them onto mass-produced pieces of plastic. They're just going through the motions at this point. Admittedly, their early work showed some promise, but this album seems to all but erase any hopes of this band ever being what they could have been.

I cringed the entire time listening to this album. It felt like my radio had gotten stuck on the most generic classic rock station ever imagined. It's really a good comparison because that's exactly where these guys are headed. The graveyard of once promising bands that decided to give up any creative ambitions in favor of mass appeal that is your local rock station.

Maybe if they wrote a concept album about that, I'd be interested. As it is though, Coheed and Cambria just don't seem to have any drive to make a good record. It's a shame, because the pedigree of the band is quite impressive, but that special magic something that makes a band work just isn't there.