- Country: Sweden
- Style: Alternative metal
- Label: Razzia / Century Media Records
- Release date: 15 June 2011
No Jesper Strömblad for the first time. Did it matter? Germany didn’t think so: Sounds Of A Playground Fading went to No. 1 there anyway.
Recorded at the band’s own IF Studios in Gothenburg with Roberto Laghi, it’s big, glossy and full of choruses. “Deliver Us” is the obvious anthem, “Where the Dead Ships Dwell” the moody earworm. Old-school Jester Race fans, take a deep breath first. Everyone else, the hooks are right there. Thirteen songs is a lot, though. Two fewer and this would hit harder.
Best tracks:
Deliver Us
Where the Dead Ships Dwell
Ropes
Author’s rating: 6.8/10
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