So I gotta be honest, I see a lot of people rating “I See A Darkness” fairly high, and I just don’t get it at all… Like AT ALL… Musically, there is no variation whatsoever – and the basic instrumentation could not have been simpler, in addition to being incredibly dull… Lyrically, there is absolutely nothing poetic in ANY of the lyrics… Nothing clever, nothing brilliant, and absolutely nothing memorable… And then we come to the vocal delivery and style – and again, nothing imaginative, nothing stylistically worth noting – and its really not even singing, it’s just sort of sad talking at best… I get that people may be attracted to it because of the depressive mood and the sadness of the album, but there are PLENTY of depressing albums out there (i.e. “The Wall” - Pink Floyd, “Back To Black” – Amy Winehouse, come to mind…), and while incredibly draining, the lyrics are amazing, the music is exceptionally well-done, and the vocal delivery is a perfect fit for the mood of the music… Essentially – everything that “I See Darkness” most certainly is NOT… Gets a 1 instead of a 0, as at least it was original – but there is a lot of original crap out there, and this is some of it…