The album serves as a streamlined hodgepodge of everything the band has done to date but lacks mellower moments.
The singer still has a knack for sharp melodies and lyrical gems, but the album’s sonic presentation falls flat.
While the album’s electro-pop trappings are almost never “happy,” they serve as a slick backdrop to its dystopian landscape.
A collaboration between the band and the San Francisco Symphony, the live album plays on light and shade.
If nothing else, the band deserves credit for releasing an album as challenging and incrementally rewarding as this.