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After being highly impressed by Lumsk's sophomoric Troll, I had high hopes for their next album.

Cue disappointment.

Some words I’d use to describe how I feel toward this album: disappointment, anger, disgust.

Looking for folk? Don't look here. Looking for metal? Definitely don't look here. Looking for something trendy, poppy, and something that sounds like it's straight from the 70's? Look no further!

Almost every song starts off with a very soft vocal line, and yes the singer is exceptionally talented and has an amazing voice (and the producers and band obviously know that, because they put her voice at the forefront of every song, and write every song around her voice), but the feel of the band has totally changed, making her voice far less appealing. This soft vocal line is normally followed by some incredibly light-hearted, poppy yet mellow keyboard, piano or violin melody line. Many songs are so soft it's not even reasonable to call them rock, it's much closer to pop. In most of the songs only a couple instruments play at once - I guess at which time the other members go take a nap. The more involved and active songs remind me of some shitty musical from the 70's or some obscure early prog rock band no one cares about. Seriously, what is this tripe?

There are only three good tracks: the second and fourth parts of the Svend Herlufsens Ord songs (the 8th and 10th tracks), and the third track, Hostnat.

There are absolutely no metal riffs, and not even any distortion on this whole album, with the exception of that third track. I wanted heavy metal riffs, smooth, sweet violin passages, folky vocal melodies, and upbeat drumming - not a half-assed psychedelic progressive rock/pop album.

I'd surmise this is the doing of the band’s sudden attention from mainstream sources. How disappointing. I really wish the singer would join a worthwhile band now that Lumsk has chosen to dismiss folk and metal, that way I wouldn’t feel that this is such a unfortunate case. If you like metal - avoid this.