I'm gonna need a few more listens to decide where I stand on this. I thought it was fine during the livestream, but listening to it afterwards makes me think a lot of that came from the energy of the crowd. Besides Gasoline and Less Than Zero, nothing really stands out, and I'm wondering if that's down to production, or just the songwriting being a little half-baked.
Honestly, the entire concept of the album is kind of weird, and maybe a bit limiting from an artistic perspective? Like, the idea of being forced to listen to 70s/80s easy listening radio, while stuck in a traffic jam on the road to purgatory, sounds like an extremely specific form of ironically humorous torture that Douglas Adams might've come up with. The entire concept of easy listening is that your songs are basically background for whatever, which does not seem like a good framework to hang an interesting or adventurous album around. Respect to Jim Carrey for making his bits work, at least.
tl;dr: I'm wondering if this album is mid on purpose to match the concept.
