Deadmau5 fans! What are your thoughts on While (1

I appreciated his attempts to "break the mould", but at times it felt a bit unhindered, like he had no one to tell him "stop, this is too much". Some tracks I dig, but largely I feel I'm listening to a poor NIN tribute (if I wanted to listen to Ghosts, I'd listen to Ghosts... no offence but Reznor did it better). It's still a style that I like, but not what I expected from Joel really. That aside, it's also painfully long IMO... could have cut down the size and trimmed the fat to produce a much greater album I think.
 
13046995:gordie. said:
I appreciated his attempts to "break the mould", but at times it felt a bit unhindered, like he had no one to tell him "stop, this is too much". Some tracks I dig, but largely I feel I'm listening to a poor NIN tribute (if I wanted to listen to Ghosts, I'd listen to Ghosts... no offence but Reznor did it better). It's still a style that I like, but not what I expected from Joel really. That aside, it's also painfully long IMO... could have cut down the size and trimmed the fat to produce a much greater album I think.
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Definitely agree that it was a little too long, some of the tracks aren't really album worthy when very similar sounding tracks are also on it. That said, I really dig Pets and Seeya. Avaritia was WAY WAY better in preproduction, he tweaked the main chord progression and now it sounds like garbage IMO
 
13047422:Walter.1337 said:
Definitely agree that it was a little too long, some of the tracks aren't really album worthy when very similar sounding tracks are also on it. That said, I really dig Pets and Seeya. Avaritia was WAY WAY better in preproduction, he tweaked the main chord progression and now it sounds like garbage IMO
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Yeah, I'd rather actually listen to a few songs from the album and then just listen to the 7 ep. I enjoyed it on its own, not as big on how he worked them in to the album.
 
topic:1337 said:
I like the calmer feel to it so far.
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It's the first time Deadmau5 has been listenable for me.

Based on a quick listen, Superbia is my favorite track.
 
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