Pump up your space suit, fans, the rumors are true. At the End of the Day is a contender for their best-album-to-date crown, right up there next to Space In Your Face or whichever is your current favorite. It delivers abundantly in all the right areas of musical muscle, intense energy, and creativity. Sure, the songs are shorter than the opuses of older albums, but they are also tighter, too. The first three songs alone will knock you off your seat. The seven-song cycle "The Machine Fish Suite" that follows them is a must-hear experience chronicling the bands' ups and downs over their ten year career. A worthy musical journey with a wealth of riffs, harmonies, and studio fun stuff, it also contrasts the corporate greed of the music business with the Golden Rule.
If that wasn't enough, former drummer Alan Doss turns in "Through," a love-gone-wrong song, "Young Man's Dream" highlights Huggin's regrets of yesteryear, and "At the End of the Day" closes on an instrumental note reminiscent of Moby. What will they do next? The band has never sounded better, complete with distortion galore and guitar nods all over the map, including what sounds like flashes of Aldo Nova. Still not convinced? As an added bonus, bassist Monty Colvin offers a whole new slew of signature art work. If you are a fan, go buy this one right now. If they continue to make albums as good as this, let's make sure it isn't their last.
4.5 tocks
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