I thought Bruce's last album had been well received. From what I've just read in the last few pages, it seems I was wrong.
I've tried it again recently, and I just can't figure out how he released such a patchy thing and genuinely thought it was great.
Well received by the majority of the fans, not here it seems. Huge expectations. I can't believe he released an album which feels unfinished (to say), with questionable producing sounds here and there. I'm very grateful for the new material and some of it (at least half imo) is as strong as his old stuff. Overall, he delivered with the vocal ideas, the playing brings it down. Some things are experimental, he is not worried to create such stuff.
Metal with
two guitars is better than with one. Also, these are ideas from past years, I wonder what brand new material he could write now (the two new ones for this album are cool and interesting), but he has a lot of old demos and ideas to use. Most of the fans, most likely Maiden's Reunion ones as well, expected classic and heavier metal approach plus faster material, not BTP 2.0. Some of it feels fresh, some when you compare probably not, but it's all good and solid imo. Like always with his solo albums, but after all these years, he tries different things and the old material can't be beaten. Such different (and varied; I wouldn't say patchy, although we know Bruce works fast, which is odd when you think about it) albums always feel special, like BTP and Skunkworks. At least for me, very good album that hasn't reached its full potential, unfortunately, although probably the result would have been ''almost'' the same. It also feels like ''proggy'' Bruce solo. As he said, he wants something different now.
