Volumes' "Mirror Touch" is NOT djent or prog
This is likely the least progressive album they've ever had. They totally sold out. The RYM page even calls it alt-metal, well before I even saw the genre tagging, I thought to myself, "This ain't djent or prog. This is alternative." I was waiting the whole damn album for just ONE djent song, but Even track 7 only has a little bit of actual djent to it, and that's about the most it'll get if it ever even gets that way. Hell, one of the tags they used on RYM for the secondaries was "alt-pop." I honestly think that might have more to do with this album. Otherwise, this is no more djent than the plethora of nu metal and industrial metal songs I can get from any 2000's racing game. I mean, when I want to listen to an album that represent my clan, I'd like for it to at least sound that way.
Basically, this album represents the same drop in progginess that Marillion showed on the overly poppy Misplaced Childhood. And I've even come under fire for saying that on Progarchives, but I maintain my argument nonetheless.
Mirror Touch indeed shows the band taking a turn into just alt-metal, distancing themselves from the djenty roots of their first two albums. In fact, I would say their previous album Happier? continues the direction they've had since Different Animals. So I'll vote YES for this entry. Stay tuned for my Happier? judgement submission...