Miracles Don't Grow On Trees (R.'s S. Review)

So as many of you little 'uns have heard, Razia's Shadow has finally made its debut via the Forgive Durden full album stream, listed here. As a forewarning, I'm going to be critiquing this "musical" quite harshly. Don't get your panties in a bunch if you absolutely adored it; rather, I should say the lot of you found it "amazing". That's what everyone said. It's amazing. Yes. Maybe if all you've listened to is the sound of your toilet flushing, I guess it could be considered amazing.
No bias intended, Shawn's part was the best. And you all know how much I love to berate the little worm, so me saying he actually did a good job is quite monumental. Well, he's not very little, fatty's been packin' on the weight. No, he's not fat, he's just husky.
Anyway, I was saying how I thought he did the best out of the entire album. That Spider and the Lamps song wasn't terrible, but what I thought the rest of the songs lacked was actual character differentials. Meaning, the voice actors sang like it was for a Christmas pageant - bleak, flat, and no intonation to distinguish between their assumed character and their real selves. It was a total snooze fest!
By the time stupid "Doctor, Doctor" came around, I was near Zzz's. That King Malkia, or whatever he tried to call himself, annoyed me to no end. The high-pitched whine was not befitting on a fat ass king. Not to mention the lyric-writing was amateur at best. I am not at all saying that I can write decent lyrics, but that's what I give "artists" credit for, and I found absence of decent lyric writing skills in this album.
Let me get to my point. The only song that caught my ear was "Doctor, Doctor". Harris managed to stretch his voice range to the deranged, lunatic and yet ingenious doctor and I think he did a damn good job, leaving every other pretentious collaborator far behind. I almost feel bad that the whole album's peak is not until the second to the last song, so that the listener had to endure that entire torture before hearing something soothing to their ears (Ew, who'd of thought that roach could ever be used in the same sentence with soothing?).
I'd try to end on a good note, but Ada-DIE-us proved that love does NOT in fact conquer all. Thus my mood was a bit off. Let the "blog fights" begin.