Nightwish, Imaginaerum

Ah, love! Thank you Nightwish for not being dead to me, thank you for making beautiful music once more and for giving me the chills once more. After Storytime (which I absolutely detested), I expected nothing good from this album, so now that I listen to it, I'm not head over hills for it and I won't pretend it's like nothing I've ever heard, that it's amazing, incredible, fantastic or anything, but I really really like it. It's fresh and pleasant and while there are a bit too many ballads, I like them all. They're nice to listen to and there are some really uplifting moments that remind me why I love Nightwish. So all in all, it's a very pleasant surprise and I'm glad they showed me they still have it in them. I like that for the most part it's not overdone and over-drowned, they added some really nice things without putting too much together and being too bombastic (I'm so happy they avoided their "too much" tendency in this one, they have a gift of making simple music sound beautiful and pure and fresh, thank God they remembered that talent of theirs).