New album leak Options

[NectarDan]

Since the new album will probably be leaking soon (since it's already available in Holland), I just wanted to say a few things to everyone. Feel free to talk about the new album all you want here. Has it leaked? Want to share a review of it? Great! Feel free to post about it all you want, just please don't post direct links to downloads of the new album here. Thanks!

Update: The album officially leaked online just now.

[Costakoui]

Well, I listened to the new album and here is my review:

This album is very good. There are 5 excellent songs (Get Ready, Show, Sofia, WDWGH? Night of Nights). Mystery, Wings and The River are ok, the rest are listenable. All I Need and You Are Not Alone remind me of Everytime I see your face and Out to dry off BoP. Home is not as bad as described in the massage board and it is better that All I need and You are not alone.

SFBM is better than V, BoP and MJ. In my Live list, it comes fourth. It is poppy but this is not new to Live; go and listen again to songs like The Distance, Sun, Children’s Son, and We Walk in the Dream. Some of you here very often compare SFBM with TDTH in order to argue that the former is less inspired and more poppy. Well, TDTH is very poppy as well; actually it was the first Live’s departure from the hard rock sound of TC and SS.

Some of you might wonder how SFBM is better than MJ. To me, MJ is the second worst Live album; it only tops V. It is very acoustic and the voice so premature. If MJ was remastered as a heavy rock album it would be amazing.

One more thing: somebody asked “what happened to Live?” This question was asked again by many TC-era fans when SS and TDTH were released. Live is unique because all of their albums do not sound alike, and offers us catchy and meaningful songs without duplicating LC, I Alone and Iris. I am a big fan of Live not because these guys wrote Lightning Crashes and sold millions in the 90s, but because I can enjoy LC, Lakini’s Juice, TDC, but also Deep enough, Forever, Flow, Like I do, Sofia etc…. all very different from each other.

I give SFBM 4 stars. Live is still out there writing amazing music.