Well, I was hoping to get the first review up on this album, but it appears that Roshan beat me to it. Hopefully I will be able to make the album look a bit better though.
I've always been the kind of person who, very strangely, prefers the first half of an album to the second. Perhaps it's because I listen starting from track one then go off on a tangent and return to track one again so the end doesn't get much of a look in. However, it would appear that this is not the case with What's Happening Here. On a first playthrough of the beginning (before I had to go out and do something, once again missing the second half) I found most of what I was hearing fairly dull. The vocals sounded angry and perhaps a little strained. After listening to the album a few times I still felt the same about it, however I had started to very much enjoy every track from Blood Rose. However, I do need to agree that album is quite samey...and there isn't a lot I have to say about why I liked the bits I liked. This does bother me as it is going to make for a very short review.
I really liked the final track 'Untitled with Mike and Breeze' which I couldn't help but feel wasn't the track name as it souned a bit mental. It's an instrumental, and I enjoyed it quite a lot.
I'm annoyed; I'm either suffering from some kind of creative block which is preventing me to write what I think about this album, or there really is just nothing to say about why I liked it.
I'm going to give the album a 2.75/5, and perhaps one day if I learn to understand why I enjoyed bits I will edit this review and possibly the score. For now though, I can only apologize for what must be the shortest review yet.
Dan.
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