I'm listening to '13' again and I still just don't quite know what to make of it yet.
Initially I thought it was...forced, may be the best word to describe it. 'Phoned in', as Engine says above, may also have described how I felt about it. Not bad, but just kind of unnecessary. However, by the end of my first listen I was starting to enjoy what I was hearing a lot more.
Second time around I think it's maybe a little more than that. It's more than I had hoped or would have expected for it to be. Theres maybe a little more thought gone into some of these tracks than I had anticipated or originally given credit for. It seems to be a record that I think the band have taken very seriously, rather than simply 'phone it in'...but theres still something that holds me back a little from saying it's particularly anything more than a 'solid', respectable record. Especially for their age.
Maybe it will continue to grow on me.
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