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Title: A Train Derailed
Review: Dream Theater needs to lighten up. The band represents the five best musicians in today's progressive rock field but lyrically and musically this effort has slipped off the tracks.Detractors have long debated that DT's output is musicianship and not music. This CD makes their case. Complex time shifts appear to happen randomly without consequence to the song as a whole.The musical tone of these songs is bleak and joyless with anger and self-pity as the supporting lyrical content. This isn't entertaining, it's oppressive. I'll take another Liquid Tension Experiment release over this threnodic collection.
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