Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: the talent is still there, but it's far from interesting.

I respect candirias decision to venture into a "simpler sound" (a good euphamism I think) but you can turn on the radio and listen to played out mall-metal and it would be equivelent to this album. i'm not going to say that they sold out, after all, they've tackled most every style of music, sometimes unsucsessfully (there's a trumpet solo on the coma imprint that would make clifford brown roll over in his grave.) but i just think they should have chosen a more interesting style to experiment with instead of the tired sound of linkin park. they have ceased to be a V.O.D. and are now a P.O.D.