Personally, I think Jared Leto should stick with acting.
From a musical perspective, their brand of proggy/alt metal with its heavily tinged sci-fi lyrics are at best quite average. Sure...there are some nice touches here and there and some decent songs as well. I`ve only listened to the S/T debut and A Beautiful Lie and they`re albums that as you say, put ambience over instrumentation.
If I want to listen to an ambient or prog metal band, then bands like Anathema and especially Pain of Salvation do the whole thing so much better.
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