I agree with my fellow reviewers
4
By mambilla
I'd say this is probably one of their best albums. Most of the songs are from the album Gravity, which I think is their best album. From what I've heard of this album, the main reason why they'd be better than the Gravity versions is that Raine's singing has met with drastic improvement. Amazingly, his pitch here, live, is better than that in studio with pitch correction technology. I've heard some of his older live recordings, which, if not for Raine's great vocal writing, I would never have listened to due to the singing being so very off pitch. I think he's the only one who I've ever cared to listen to when I found the singing fairly bad. When I say "fairly bad" I refer mainly to pitch, however, since I'm quite fond of the emotion he injects into his singing. Other family members find the nasality of Raine Maida's voice too much, but I find it to be an...acquired taste. If you can appreciate good writing, I think you'll like this CD. So many artists today are mediocre singers at best (made possibly mostly by the popularity of pop-punk music I suspect), and people seem to have no problem with buying up their CD's. Despite Raine's apparently bitter anti-Christian lyrics, I'm quite fond of this band.
