Motorblender

With all these nice arrangements, I can't help but wonder why nobody bothered to complain about the sound so far. Seriously. It's obnoxiously loud in the same way as those insanely loud, overcompressed commercials inbetween an average-volume programme on TV. When opened up in Audacity, one can see just how many times Fear of Haze goes through the red to the point it's surprising it doesn't distort as far as I'm able to hear. The more frequent the 'clipping', or the highest peaks getting cut off by the digital limit on a loud audio file, the higher the chance of distortion will become, and the higher the chance of losing finer detail in the loudest parts, essentially reducing these to digital bricks. I like the album, but this is one seriously annoying blight upon it. Just avoid this kind of loudness in the future, period. That's what the volume knob is for. If I could recommend a maximum volume peak, I'd try 94 dB at its very loudest; trust me on this. Anyway, 4 stars given for the album, 1 taken for the distractingly loud sound. I hope you'll at least check out this feedback; I'm not trying to bring you down in any way, but it needs to be said.