Put your initial thought after your first listen to The Mandrake Project to one sentence please.

[MindRuler]

It beggars belief that half-baked turd is the best he could come up with in 18 years!

Wouldn't call it a turd but it was a disappointment after a few listening sessions. My least favourite together with the debut

 

[Dick Brucinson]

It beggars belief that half-baked turd is the best he could come up with in 18 years!

Just imagine how the result would have sounded like if he had done the album in only ten or twelve years!

 

[GhostofCain]

Just imagine how the result would have sounded like if he had done the album in only ten or twelve years!

It could have been a less serious case of constipation, as it would have taken him less time to release the turd!

 

[MindRuler]

It could have been a less serious case of constipation, as it would have taken him less time to release the turd!

Oh the irony:
The root and leaves of the mandrake are used to make medicine. People take European mandrake root for treating stomach ulcers, colic, constipation, ...