2 out of 5

I appreciate this as a bonus – it came free with the album – but… it’s something of a waste of time.  A ‘studio recording documentary’ – about 15 of its 60 minutes – is probably its most worthwhile aspect, although it’s very raw and unstructured, mostly just the dudes chatting and cutting back and forth to some music fills.  It’s cool to see bands being ‘human,’ and hear the chatter of a group just coming together (before they’d settled on a band name, for example), but there’s nothing to particularly glean from it; it’s just of passing interest.

Thereafter we get ‘videos’ for each song.  Now, look: I appreciate that someone put this together.  Some scratchy video effects are added, and someone chose the images to capture and edited them to be in reverse, or time-lapsed, but each and every video is just a static image (or rather, a camera pointed at unmoving things) or put-the-camera-in-one-place-while-driving-and-hit-record bits, with some really grating inbetween chatter.  I acknowledge the effort, and this is by NO means a commentary on the music – which I dig – it’s just, why watch this?  Unless it’s background, which is how I had it on.

Lastly there’s literally a minute of a ‘making-of’ of the special edition of the album. Hardly.  They show the tin case, call it the special edition, the end.