I think this is a great album, which for the most part streamlines the sound the band developed on Funeral, while bringing in a few fresh ideas too. It's more refined. The first half really shines here with "Keep the Car Running" and "Intervention" being the big standouts for me. But, I think everyhing else in the first half is uniformly great -- "Black Mirror", the title track, "Ocean of Noise", and the interestingly structured "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations". The second half has it's moments too, but I think what kind of holds it back for me are the last two songs (which I realize everyone but me loves). It's not that they're terrible songs, but they kind of lose the tone set by the rest of the album, since they kind of retreat to the band's more bombastic approach on their first album. Still, there's a lot of great stuff here. 4.5 stars.