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Title: Can't hear Amy
Review: Fallen is IMO one of the best albums ever -- a rare one where I find all the tracks enjoyable. I'm still far from fully understanding why I don't like The Open Door nearly as much, but there's one thing I noticed, and that's that I have to strain to understand what Amy Lee is singing. This is probably a major part of it. In Fallen I could enjoy the words, and I could enjoy her voice. In The Open Door it's all somehow drowned, by either the music or the effects, or at times it just seems she's whispering. In Fallen her voice was also overlayed with stuff, but at least she seemed to make an effort to rise above it, or perhaps whoever edited it seemed to realise that her voice should be heard.
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