01 Shudder Before The beatiful: Typical Nightwish-song, a lot of power, good melody, interesting passages. Very good opener, was the reason why I bought the album (5/5) 02 Weak Fantasy: I like it personally. For me, just nothing special and rather reminds me of other metal bands (2/5) 03 Elan: nice melody, atmospheric and less harsh (4/5) 04 Yours Is An Empty Hope: comparatively hard, hard to hear and taste. Not typical of Nightwish, but after repeated listening interesting (4/5) 05 Our Decades In The Sun: Very good Meldie and progressive passages. Very quiet and very good (5/5) 06 My Walden: From idea how Elan. Many folk elements. Elan's melody like it better but it has this interesting passages here (4/5) 07 Endless Forms Most Beautiful: comparable with Shudder Before the beatiful. Simply typical Nightwish and as good as really should be all the songs (5/5) 08 Edema Ruh: to dream (4/5) 09 Alpenglow: My favorite on the album. Super atmospheric (5/5) 10 The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula: suitable to fall asleep and not even a great melody (intro for the final?) (2/5) 11 The Greatest Show On Earth: The patient listener gets a challenging (to?) Long finish (4/5)
Are on average exactly: (4/5)
Conclusion: Many songs are not typical Nightwish, partly progressive and too poor to energy. The album is therefore a matter of taste. I am excited about the songs which I rated (5/5) and meet my expectations. Too bad that some are weak to average songs on the album. Since this album is not quite tuned to the predecessor.
