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Four stars in Mojo 😀
Fricke knows his Motorpsycho stuff as well, as he's been a fan ever since Little Lucid Moments in 2008.
A rather negative and critical review at plattentests.de. The reviewer scores the album 6/10.
amazon has a CD back cover image showing how the tracks are split across the two CDs (not how I expected, based on earlier info), track lengths, and writing credits.
Yup, I kinda can understand the reviewers opinion. Ok, I generally don't listen to lots of rock at the moment (but still playing in a rock band once a week). Being fascinated by other genres these days. Anyways I'm gonna buy the album as a longtime fan and the gig I went to last year was such a blast. And The All Is One in its entirety will be good, I know already.
But The Same Old Rock I've only listened once since they put it online. Set the hook "not bad but it's not a surprise".
Calling the new album redundant? Hmmm…. well the reviewer probably didn't get the memo about this one being the 3rd in a trilogy…
Motorpsycho has always been yr elephant. Except for those who enjoy and make it big, big, big! So what…
As far as I understand the review in Plattentest, N.O.X. would have fared much better as a single album without the other songs. Well, we'll see in a few weeks. I do share the criticism of "Same old Rock" to some point, but let's not judge too early here – better not judge at all, but enjoy – and be it after the seventh desperate effort to digest another entirely new and still unfamiliar Motorpsycho record.
I'll make my own review then review the reviews to judge who was right about my forthcoming opinion.
That's how the internet should work!
I'm actually a bit annoyed to see N.O.X spread over 2 discs. They should've made that one
big piece. Same as the HBM song which was cut in two, it will probably lose some of the
flow and coherence.
Still really looking forward to the album, even though The Same Old Rock didn't exactly
floor me.
It doesn't necessarily lose some of the flow and coherence, since it's divided into 5 parts anyway. Look at it as 5 songs. I wouldn't be surprised if they thought about that and did a proper ending to pt III and head into pt IV with a fresh restart of sorts. I'll put it on my phone anyway where it all flows in one go. I did my own sequencing for BTS (I think Ghost comes too early), The Tower (starts now with ASFE), RW5 (starts with Köln, then Un Chien), and made a playlist for HBM2 without the middle noisy track, because I like to go to sleep with it. I know it's blasphemic but yeah whatever
Also you can rip the CDs and burn 'em with your own sequencing. There's always a way for the desperate. 
Streetclip.de review awards the album 9 points and concludes "The All Is One" is a tremendously crazy piece of work, which crowns the "Gullvåg Trilogy".
See review thread for full review.
Christmas came early! Just picked up my copy at the post office (Oslo resident, LTD Rune G edition), can't wait to dive into this one after work :STG:
The album artwork was posted through Instagram earlier today. Wow.
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