I think it an excellent album and a perfect mix of traditional, acoustic and electronic instruments blended into a beautiful, shifting and vibrating fusion of psychedelia. Parts of it remind me of electronic raggae somehow and that really gets me moving and grinning in equal measure. I don't like the new heavy metal-esque tracks very much either- especially as the first one sounds like a Prodigy - Firestarter rip-off, but the other new tracks with their persian/arabic sounds and influences are beautiful, rather unique and very atmospheric. In regards to the real drums, maybe I'm getting old or have been listening to 'normal' music too much of late, but they don't tire me or bring on listening fatigue at all, indeed it's the electronic beats with their perfectly uniform rhythm and identical sound that have that effect on me these days, as the 1055th beat sounds exactly the same as the 1044 that went before it. But anyway, yeah, all in all it's an excellent album.