Sunday, May 9, 2021

so, my initial first-run take on tomorrows III is that it's a different record and you should probably cut tomorrows off at a double to maximize it's value.

it consequently might make the most amount of sense to actually put volume III at the top of the sequence, and pare it down a little, but let me listen to it a lot more closely.

i've avoided a detailed analysis of this record, at this time, because this is one of the biggest projects we've gotten from really anybody at all in pretty much years. people just don't write multi-disc concept records anymore - it's an obsolete format. i mean, i'll take it - it's what i like. but, it's an anachronism, and it requires a little more digestion than your average contemporary 45 minute record full of filler, with a hit song or two. you have to actually listen to this in order to grasp it.

but, you can instantly tell that this third volume is....it's outside of the other two. maybe it's the leftovers. maybe it's just better off as a different recording. but, the first two are really self-contained, and trying to add a third disc on the end is just feeling anti-climactic. it's going to have to come up at the start, or not at all. 

but, the truth is that unbind sounds more like an alternate opening to volume one than something you can throw in at the start, and there are literal alternate versions of tracks sequenced earlier on, making this very seriously appear to be the outtakes companion ep to the double record proper, rather than a third installment of the series.

but, let me chew on it further.