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Off Course is great album and I remember earlier JPD mentioning that it would sound a bit like Face Stabber in the new album and that's what we eventually got.

Every song on it is great. "Off Course", almost "Fu Xi" from Face Stabber vibes. I also got almost King Gizz, Flying Microtonal Banana and Minutemen, The Punch Line vibes especially on "Hecate's Reflection Is A Trick". "The Trick" is a great instrumental. "Syringe", another great track. "The Brute On His Knees" (reminded of "The Axis" from A Weird Exits, obviously mentioned in the liner notes). It's also pretty short as well only being roughly 33 minutes, the same length as MDAL.

It's also a surprise that Bridgid fully returned to the band and I thought it was gonna be a touring thing. The last time she appeared on an album with the band was Face Stabber (2019).

I guess my review writing is probably shit, idk. I'm just writing it after listening to the album on my first listen.

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"Say would you like to listen to this tune?" Thoughts?

I know for a fact that the 2022-2023 albums never had an official CD release according to Discogs. From the Willoughby's Beach EP to Butterfly 3000, and Flight b741 and Phantom Island had official CD releases except the 22-23 albums. I'm just thinking up some ideas or suggestions for potential CD releases of the 22-23 albums but I'm not too sure whether the band would agree or not.

Most commercial CD's maximum length is about 80 minutes (1h 20m) (700 MB) so I had to split some into seperate discs.

I'm thinking of Omnium Gatherum could be split into 2 CD's because of the length of the album, but can either keep or leave out the vinyl crackles that's present in the digital/streaming versions.

Another idea is to combine Made In Timeland & Laminated Denim into one disc because both albums in total are 60 minutes (30 minutes each) and both albums are written around the ticking of a clock, with Laminated Denim being the spiritual successor to (and the title being an anagram of) Made In Timeland as described by the band.

Another idea, for the 2023 albums PetroDragonic Apocalypse and The Silver Cord, could possibly include the bonus tracks from the vinyl releases on CD. Another thing with The Silver Cord, the Standard mix is one disc plus the bonus tracks and the Extended Mix is two discs. Should we either have seperate physical versions of the Standard & Extended mixes like with the vinyl releases, or have it as a combined 3 disc set, I don't know.

IDPLMAL and Changes doesn't extend beyond 80 minutes nor have any bonus tracks from the vinyl releases.

Since Flight b741 and Phantom Island's CD releases were on digipaks or digisleeves (whatever), It's likely that they would package them in those.

Omnium Gatherum (4/8/22) (1:20:11)

Disc One: (40:18)

The Dripping Tap (18:17) / Magneta Mountain (6:04) / Kepler-22b (3:12) / Gaia (5:11) / Ambergris (4:27) / Sadie Sorceress (3:07)

Disc Two: (39:53)

Evilest Man (7:38) / The Garden Goblin (2:56) / Blame It On The Weather (2:31) / Persistence (3:47) / The Grim Reaper (3:05) / Presumptuous (4:53) / Predator X (3:45) / Red Smoke (4:21) / Candles (4:34) / The Funeral (2:23)

Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava (10/7/22) (1:04:00)

Mycelium (7:36) / Ice V (10:16) / Magma (9:06) / Lava (6:41) / Hell's Itch (13:28) / Iron Lung (9:05) / Gliese 710 (7:48)

Changes (10/28/22) (40:01)

Change (13:03) / Hate Dancin' (3:16) / Astroturf (7:33) / No Body (3:42) / Gondii (4:57) / Exploding Suns (4:40) / Short Change (2:50)

Made In Timeland / Laminated Denim (3/5/22 / 10/12/22) (1:00:00)

Timeland (15:00) / Smoke & Mirrors (15:00) / The Land Before Timeland (15:00) / Hypertension (15:00)

PetroDragonic Apocalypse (6/16/23) (1:03:03)

Motor Spirit (8:33) / Supercell (5:06) / Converge (6:16) / Witchcraft (5:04) / Gila Monster (4:36) / Dragon (9:45) / Flamethrower (9:21) / BT: Dawn Of Eternal Night (14:22)

The Silver Cord (10/27/23) (Standard & Extended Mixes) (2:08:49)

Standard Mix (40:05)

Theia (3:24) / The Silver Cord (4:20) / Set (3:56) / Chang'e (3:46) / Gilgamesh (3:43) / Swan Song (4:25) / Extinction (4:40) / BT: Space Junk (4:35) / BT: Plasma (3:09) / BT: Embryo (4:07)

Extended Mix Disc One: (43:44)

Theia (20:41) / The Silver Cord (12:45) / Set (10:18)

Extended Mix Disc Two: (45:00)

Chang'e (10:46) / Gilgamesh (11:16) / Swan Song (10:29) / Extinction (12:29)

In conclusion, I'm just showing some ideas for potential CD releases of those albums.