I'm listening to this for the first time now and I don't think this is a 1/10, or 10/100, or whatever, by any means. This is really well constructed ambient, pleasing to the ear yet heavily textured and complex. There's even some nice drone elements going on in "Initiation at Neudeg Alm" which are mesmerizing when coupled with the spacey synthesizers. Obviously I don't want to give a full review on this (here's a link to an opinion much closer to my own:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vekiCfWRstU), but I think that the amount of work that has gone into the production and layering of this album makes it far from boring. Slow, for sure, but certainly not boring.
I noticed in your review that you criticized the album simply for existing under the name of WitTT, and I think this brings up an interesting debate. Obviously you did not like the album - although I disagree, your opinion is fair. But should a band be criticized for switching direction regardless of how good the music itself is? Personally I love seeing how bands evolve from album to album, though I understand that there are going to be those (such as yourself) who feel deceived in a way because an album does not stay true to the sound present on prior records. Based on obligations to record labels, however, I doubt that it is easy for a band to appease the label it is attached to while also creating a wholly new side project with which to explore new sounds. I get the impression that bands like Wolves in the Throne Room can feel trapped within the confines of their own legacy because of this.
