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Heh, oddly enough, I did get a free copy of the disc. That said, having spun it a hell of a lot in the past week, I would not have been at all upset about paying for it.
I hated... hated, hated, hated The Glorious Burden, but Framing Armageddon is pretty damn good. It's not top-tier material for me, but considering I had all but left this band for dead after their last album, this album is quite impressive. It doesn't have the forced feel I picked up on with the previous disc, and Ripper sounds pretty damn incredible. I'm still a Barlow fanboy at heart, but I can genuinely say that I dig this new disc, and if it's an indication of where the band might be headed, I can see myself sticking around for a few albums more to hear how they step up their game over time.
