EDIT: I feel the need to elaborate a bit since I've listened to it properly now. Like every truely excelent album Om has songs that very immensly between themselves but at the same time they are still obviously a part of Om, from concept to sound. As a very nihilistic person I find this album quite distressing in many ways too because it has such a powerful aura of spirituality and a life of its own that it really stands at odds with my world view, however those of you with more spiritual beliefs will find this exhilerating I'm sure because Om really is an ideal more than an album and I'm sure that many of you will be moved by it. Other than this all the wonderful parts of Inarborant Kosmos' sound have been preserved, ehnanced and reimagined for Om, the folk instruments are used sparingly but stunningly and the ambient keyboards blend in perfectly with the rest of the instruments to create something as rich and deep as 'N Crugu Bradului but in half the song length. In short this is exactly what Negura Bunget claimed it would be, total maturation in every way, it is a powerful and confident album that is neither pretentious nor hollow, it is simply Om, in the perfect sense of the word.
Album of the year.