I heard this would be their hardest album since MoP, well maybe it's hard, but the songs blow. Rolling Stone gave this CD four stars...that completely baffles me...4 stars? This album [isn't good], plain and simple. It was a bitter letdown for me. I am totally confused by the production. Sounds like it was recorded on a $20 tape recorder while they played in a garage or someone's basement. How could they listen to this and think it sounded good? Have they all gone deaf? Do they think it sounds "raw"? Well it doesn't. It just sounds horrible. The drums sound bad, the vocals are too loud and sound like [garbage], and the bass is washed out. Add to this the fact that there is only one song on this whole album that I would care to ever hear again, and you get the picture. It makes me sad.