Well, listening to all of their music I can really hear how they've grown in their ability to make music. And I could say I like one album over the other, perhaps, but in all honesty I will always love their bonus tracks and B sides best, such as Spiral Static, Glorious, and Easily. After hearing The Resistance, I feel like for sure they've gotten past any "awkward stage" they've had as a band. And I like hearing the clean style album tracks, but I think they sound way better live. It seems as though each time they play a song it evolves and sounds different. Hullabaloo and HAARP were good (I love the Hullabaloo version Micro Cuts) but their Bercy performance is maybe higher on my list, which isn't an album but can be downloaded from
microcuts.net for free. Absolution was the first real album of theirs I'd heard, and compared to previous albums (Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry) They really did well at making it all come together whereas before it almost to me seemed like random songs on a cd.
When I first heard Black Holes and Revelations I felt as though their music sounded very homogenous but upon further inspection they really were playing better. Have you seen Invincible live? I think it's astonishing, as someone who doesn't play guitar.
