Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: very slow and lethargic/their other 2 albums are much better

Like I said above, this album has a lot of slow ballads and the whole album seems to lack energy. The ballads lack any memorable hooks and the only good song that I really liked on it was "treading water"(which is quite a good song). hi-speed soul is halfway decent but thats about it as far as this album is concerned. High/low and the proximity effect are much better choices than this one. nada surf seems to sound somewhat different with every release. They decided to slow it down alot with this one, but it just comes off as boring. In order to play a good ballad there has to be melody and emotion which isnt here. I miss their sound from the high/low (love that song"the plan") days and wish they would go back to it. anyways maybe they should come back to america and start playing louder, just my opinion