This album is pretty weak if you ask me. I really like Entwine, but unfortunatly this album was a big disappointment. There is two songs that i enjoyed, the rest was nothing new.

I would have one question for the reveiwer, and that is - How many times have you listened to the album?

I agree with about 85% of what is said in this review... but what makes me suspicious is that what you are describing about the songs is exactly what I was feeling/thinking probably within the first three for four listens of the album.
This is especially true with what you said at the end - I liked the same 5 you did, didn't care much for the 3 you did, and the other two I found good at some points but weak in others (namely the choruses)

However, the beauty of this album is that as you listen to it... you get new favorites and new songs stuck in your head all of the time!
"My Serenity" meant nothing to be before but one day I listened to it and it hit me that "Holy crap! This song is quite something!" The same things goes for "Out of You" - which in my opinion has a CHORUS which sounds almost exactly like something you'd hear in Entwine's older works.

I'm not saying the album is perfect... but as you listen to it more and more I think your opionions on songs will greatly change... as for now.... I could be wrong... but I think that you have much more listening to put into this album before you go forming too many opinions about it.

Other than that, I agreed with almost everything.

And have you heard their "Sliver" EP? I only asked b/c it's their only works you hadn't mentioned.

@Mr Heartbreaker: First of all, Entwine is one of the bands that i adore, a band i follow since "Gone", so everytime they release an album i'm always there to listen to it carefully and many times because Entwine is not just another band for me. And for Goth's sake, i didn't listen to it just 3-4 times and managed to write a review! Just because our opinions were the same in the beginnning and then you managed to love those songs and such it doesn't mean that the same happened to me, on the contrary i think, at first those three songs weren't bothering me so much, but with the more i was listening to them they didn't mean something. So i remain to my opinion about those three compositions, after all opinions are subjective, i have mine, you have yours, so i don't see why i should have listened to the album 3-4 times to necessarily agree with you, opinions vary As for "out of you" it's a good song definitely, i enjoy it a whole lot, but it's not as perfect as the 5 great songs i found in this album, that's why i didn't put it in the same category as them. But that's just my opinion as i stated above, and i respect Entwine, which means i gave the appropriate listening to "Fatal Design", an album i listened to having the greatest expectations. As for the EP you mentioned, no, i haven't listened to it, but even if i had i wouldn't have mentioned it because i usually mentioned full-length albums in cases like this one of Entwine! Is it a good EP? But thanks for the constructive comment, you don't find much like this

Yeah... the EP was released actually last year... and one of the tracks off of it (a Savage Garden cover) was up for an award here on Metalstorm.
Additionally, this EP contains the original version of "Break Me," which sounds for the most part very similiar to the "Fatal Design" version.
There was one other new track on it, "Still Waiting," which sounds very Gonish and is a great track. The other two tracks are live tracks of older songs.
I could be wrong, but the EP seemed to be their way of showing their fans that they could still make darker goth music without it sounding too commercial.

Anyway, my comment wasn't meant to offend... I just wasn't sure how many times you'd heard the album. Sometimes I read reviews on this site which make it blatantly obvious that the reviewer didn't put much effort into critiquing the album or just simply didn't care (which i realize isn't the case in this review).

It's deffinitely a heavier album, but it has some songs that aren't so melancholic... Take "My Serenity", it's more like in the modd of I will survive, I'll be fine... Maybe this album is not so melancholic, it's a bit heavier and more agressive. But it's still a great release.

I prefer this one to Dieversity any day of the week, but only the second half of the album.

Surrender has got to be one of the catchiest songs ever made. It's a good album overall.