Listened to Science of Noise last night on CM youtube, and then a friend got it and let me give it a few whirls on her ipod. Gonna say, on first listen, I like it a lot. WATV and Construct definitely hit that "distinct" sound spot that makes me curious about listening to songs over and over again.
Can't say on first listen that I like it anywhere near as much as the Gallery. My response to the Gallery was similar to the first time I ever heard Mercyful Fate (my uncle playing the first track of Conspiracy for me upstairs, where my grandfather used to paint). Mind. Fucking. BLOWN. What am I listening to? WHAT IS THIS CRAZY FUCKING SHIT THAT'S ASSAULTING MY EARS!?
I'm still open to being mindfucked. And Construct definitely is very pleasing. But the Gallery, it is not. And I only mean that in the impression it makes - I have no desire for DT to release another album that sounds like the Gallery (and I'm sure they've never intended to do so). On that token, it's why I dislike the Damage Done / Character / Fiction period... if we were going to release three similar sounding albums, maybe three the Galleries would have been sexier? Ahehehe. Not a huge fan of those three, especially Character, which I think is my least favorite DT album. Fiction is pretty good, even if I don't jive with the sound.