Actually I dunno man, if this album had only the good parts and cut the crap, it could have been pretty cool. It would also have fit onto a 7". As it is though, signal-to-noise ratio is pretty bad so it's definitely not a BUY or ZOMG-THEY-DID-MAKE-THE-JESTER-RACE-2 type thing so don't get your hopes up, but you know, it's not utterly, absolutely terrible and none of the songs seem to be CLOUD CONNECTED or THE QUIET PLACE here.
Listen to "Leeches" from 01:40 to about 02:15 for cool lead work of the kind In Flames USED to be known for. Then it goes into this absolutely terrible jumpdafukup riff, and then the chorus is kinda catchy and has clean vocals that aren't UTTERLY horrible for once.
The title track, "Come Clarity", opens with some old-style folk acoustics which they haven't done since 1999, which is neat! then ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS ANDERS FRIDEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING whine-vox come in and ruin the mood. NEXT
Far too many tracks on this album try to be "brutal" and go 2/4 all the time only to end up sounding like shit. Also, just because there was a fan backlash against the last three albums doesn't mean the path to go is to play generic Gothenburg riffs ("Vacuum") because ripping off Slaughter of the Soul has been done about 50000 times already. "Crawl Through Knives" has more generic riffage but is kinda catchy, eh.
"Reflect the Storm" is possibly the coolest song on here. It's almost "Colony". But the chorus is gay.
"Scream". Utter fucking bollocks. Big dumb groove riffs all around. Shit, shit, shit song. Fuck off.
Ugh ya ok this is pretty bad. "Our Infinite Struggle". DROPPING ALL THE GUITARS DURING THE VERSE IS A BAD FUCKING IDEA. It was bad in 1996 it is bad now. Fuck off.
"Vanishing Light" has harmony leads and a stupid fucking verse. Fuck off.
The first track is crap. It tries to be fast and semi-brutal and ends up sounding like a MIDI version of Slaughter of the Soul played too fast.
OK
There is one semi-cool track here, "Reflect the Storm", and even so it's more Clayman than The Jester Race. Another loser of an album, it just doesn't lose to such an immense extent as the previous two. It would kinda make more logical sense to put this between Gayman and Reroute to Remain in the discography.
