Not sure why you're calling it "Alexi style writing" though, older stuff, including his solo song, doesn't really suffer from the same problems. Heck, even KTS which was supposed to have been a last-minute thing, comes together in a pretty consistent fashion, other than the random solo in the end.
It depends if it's written with passion and vision or just randomly playing guitar and picking out good sounding riffs and gluing them together. I first heard this when he was writing material for AYDY in the Lapland cabin.
Jam out random shit and when I figure that sounded good I play it again and record it. Or maybe it's the attitude; I said this all along, it would be more exciting for starters if the attitude was "I can't wait to get writing the new album and doing something remarkable!" than
"I dunno, I guess the same shit again." Maybe it's Alexi's way of talking tho. It was hard to grasp what their initial thoughts were in reality as there was a colorful variety of attitudes circling in the air, one of them being
the condition was with the producer we set out to write the best metal album ever. Obviously what might seem like stressful work might turn to passion later on.
Maybe I'm delusional but I think I can sense gluing together of separate ideas in many songs on RRF, and on some tracks forming the song on the basis of just one or two nice ideas, which is always more or less the case, but sometimes it's painfully obvious. Some of their tracks are teeming with brilliance. Maybe it's my personal problem with thrash... but there's no need to pretend things to be perfect. I may hear their songs thousands of times during the years and one day find out in a live video
that's how that particular part sounds absolutely perfect. It's little things which are difficult to get exactly the way in studio the artist imagines them.
The bottom line is after all whatever Alexi writes is the best of his heart and ability and mind by the time. Naturally each album has some musically less staggering songs, but for me songs like Northpole Throwdown are just "aahh fuck it, we need one more song, let's mash some silly riffs together in a minute and include this Chinese melody we didn't use yet." Then again some people find that song awesome, so who am I to judge. My opinion is Alexi could make a better album if he put more heart into it. Best music is the kind that makes you visualize things, feel emotions and feel adrenaline rush, and besides x amount of scenes RRF doesn't do that to me (mostly it has the adrenaline rush) but that's also just how I see it. Truth is of course no matter how much hard work there is, art is mostly vision.
