Yes I prefer Bat 2. The small bits are smaller and the big bits are bigger, arrangement wise and production wise... and composition wise as well.
It's kinda nice to have Bat 2 as the definitively huge monument of Bat sitting in the middle being orbited by two, in my opinion, less monolithic statements in Bat 1 and 3.
Having said that, the fact that Meat has taken a direction on this album that strays much farther from Jim than the direction of Bat 1 and 2 places this album as a nice bookend of Meat's discography first and foremost much more than as a sequel to Bat 2, for me.
My only beef with Bat 3 now is that Paul Jacobs and Sarah Durkee aren't involved at all, it would have been cool to have this album as a sort of whirlwind of all of Meat's major composers from over the years.
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