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Originally Posted by tomd2103
The sudden switch to the 80's sound in the second half of the album is a strange one, especially after hearing the demos and what the songs might have sounded like.
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I'd push back back on this. Critical Thinking guitar harks back to similar influences on THB like PiL. Decline and Fall has some synth work and Brushstrokes has the momentum of a Cure song. Probably more in there that I missed, The reliance on 80's influences has been pretty consistent from Futurology though RiF through Exile through TUVL to Critical Thinking, and might go some way to explaining some folks dislike of the last three albums.