* Lyrically it is a very interesting album, I like Wilshire for example, for it being a long song spanning many verses, rapping about his experience with somebody he really loved that he never got to fully be with.

* On the production side, it is sort of a mixed bag, Icdzxvb really don't think Tyler is a very great producer because it seems to be my constant gripe with these albums. It's always very inconsistent for me. I like the neo-soul aspects, particularly seen on the first part of track 10. However I found some pretty boring in comparison. Even the ones I don't mind are pretty unexciting and are very forgettable.

* The features are also a mixed bag, if you told me YoungBoy was the best feature on this entire album I wouldn't believe you, damn that was good. But I also liked Domo Genesis on his track. As for the others, some were barely noticeable and some I didn't really care for.

* It's a fine album with very personal lyrics, but I just find the production to be inconsistent, and the features are pretty mixed too.

* Waterworld is a very bad licensed game for the SNES. But take a look of this soundtrack. It's actually beautiful. Dean Evans is seriously the best composer of the SNES era besides David Wise.

* The soundtrack ranges from dark and atmospheric, pretty and ethereal, and groovy. This is mainly done with the instrumentation and vibes of the chords. A low and echoing flute is used on a lot of the tracks makes it sound sort of unsettling in a way. Plus the ambient chords, which I believe to be minor sell the feeling a lot here.

* The pretty tracks tends to use more major chords, making it sound a lot more pretty and ethereal. They also use the 7th of the chords to add more richness to the sound. Reverb on the pads and strings are also used to make it sound very spacey and open. Evans also uses softer percussion to make it sound more peaceful but still have a bit of a groove, same with the moving bass.

* Then the way the groovy tracks are done is the very alive bass and stronger percussion. Evans even adds vibrato and portamento to the bass to make it sound very alive and even realistic, despite it being a crushed up 8 bit PCM sample.

* The one exception would be Atoll, it's very rock influenced with a hard guitar that sounds very threatening. It's a strange, feels out of left field, but in a good way.

* My only issue is that a couple tracks are pretty boring and drag on too long. And a more minor criticism is that the soundtrack is made to loop most of the tracks once, I just skipped these loops, but it can ruin your enjoyment of the album if you decide to not skip them because it will just get repetitive so I just wanted to mention that.

* Progressive Rock is starting to become one of my favourite genres because all of this was amazing and blew me away at certain parts. I truly think this is close to perfect, but personal vibes keep me from rating this 100, but it could easily rise.

* So the best part of this album really is the very complex and artistically sound arrangements. There's so many elements to focus on in these songs. A big part of it are the song lengths which give especially the 10+ minute songs a long time to sonically evolve, it leaves a greater impression than shorter songs.

* You also got the number of elements within these arrangements, which is what gives it the complexity. You have the standard 4 instruments of rock, synths, woodwinds, and even some brass instruments on the opener. It makes the songs feel constantly fresh.

* Overall this album feels very fresh and is given much time for its tracks to evolve. Combined with its complex arrangements due to the many instruments used, this leads to what is now my absolute favourite prog rock album