I should stress that while I did vote Evol, it was an incredibly close call for me. I'm actually wondering if perfection is a quality that necessarily makes something the best. I always think there's a potential for complacency with perfection. I'm not saying BMR is a complacent album but compared with evol, there is a sense (for me at least) of them reaching some kind of conclusion to ideas previously sketched on CIS. Evol is the far more exciting album for me because, while the traces of CIS and BMR are still there, it seems to be the moment where they were finally able to really define themselves - for a period at least. But that really is to take nothing away from the brilliance of BMR.
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