Some of Machines' songs sound a little too familiar--"Middle of Yesterday," for instance, features a verse structure highly reminiscent of 1997's "Superman's Dead." Catchy riffs and melodies characterize "Right Behind You" and "Made to Heal," but can't help them from feeling highly formulaic and forgettable. If it weren't for Kurzweil's vocal bytes interspersed throughout the album, the songs would likely run into one another.
Overall, Spiritual Machines is a solid, safe album designed to appeal to the nearly 2 million OLP fans worldwide. Its attempt at conceptual greatness falls flat and fans are likely to wish Kurzweil's words had remained in his book, but what the album lacks in musical creativity, it makes up for in power and predictability. And sometimes that's all you need.
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