The fan also revealed that there are guitar solos in some of the tracks, there are screams at the end of ‘Moth’, and they feel that the song ‘Real’ is sonically similar to Slipknot’s 2014 album, ‘.5: The Gray Chapter’.
Later, they said they “like it a lot” after their third listen. “Just don’t expect metal songs,” they added. When asked if it was “very electronic or anything”, they replied: “Not very electronic no. Hard to name a band with the same sound, but the vibe is definitely Slipknot except no screams, no double bass drum.”
The listener wrote: If you like [2004’s ‘Circle’ and 2022’s ‘Adderall’], you will like the album (also ‘Prelude 3.0’), but they don’t have the same ‘metal tones’.”
Me han enviado “Look Outside Your Window” y la verdad es DIFERENTE. Definitivamente no se puede decir que es Slipknot, y si es experimental pero no hay “vibra de Radiohead” como dijo Corey. pic.twitter.com/TvRBjpJ31b
— Emanuel Fabian (@emanfabian) April 13, 2026
Someone else queried about “the Radiohead comparison that’s been mentioned just about every time this is brought up”, to which the author of the post responded: “Some elements here and there, but overall not that much. The first thing that I thought was that most of these songs would really fit on [2004 album] ‘Vol.3 The Subliminal Verses’. They have the same vibe.”
Another user asked about the previous references to Pink Floyd. “I could see the Pink Floyd comparison actually!” the listener wrote back. “They have the same ‘slowness’.” They also shared that there was “nothing heavy” on the LP.
As for standout moments on the album, they said: “‘Moth’, ‘Dirge’, ‘Toad’ and my favourite is ‘Juliette’. But they are all a lot better than I thought they would be! ’11th March’ is like a long intro, really slow and ‘U Can’t Stop This’ is an outro (shortest song I believe).”
Elsewhere in the Reddit thread, a fan praised the “gorgeous pressing” of ‘Look Outside Your Window’.
A user also asked: “Do you hear anything that has been used later on in Slipknot?” The listener replied: “I didn’t hear any reused riffs, but I haven’t listened to the last two albums much.”
On X/Twitter, another fan said they had bought ‘Look Outside Your Window’ early, too. “You definitely can’t say it’s Slipknot, and yeah it’s experimental but there’s no ‘Radiohead vibe’ like Corey said,” they shared.
“What is interesting, though, is how far removed it is from everything they’ve done over so many years, both as a band and separately. If it weren’t for Taylor’s voice, you could say it’s another band altogether.
The fan concluded: “But beyond that, it’s INTERESTING and so far one of the best of the year. I hope it makes it to the Grammys.”
Someone else posted a track-by-track guide on Reddit after their first listen, and summarised: “Does it sound like Radiohead? Not in the slightest, to be honest. It goes a bit shoegazey, and with Deftones on a monstrous resurgence right now, I wonder if that prompted the album’s release.
“Does it sound like Slipknot? If we try to disassociate from Corey’s unmistakable vocals, it’s clearly not a Slipknot album. In places it skirts a little close to ‘weird’ Slipknot (‘My Pain’, ‘XIX’, ‘If Rain Is What You Want’) but it’s good that they were clearly trying to do something different, because any time it does border on Slipknot, it’s obvious that half the band aren’t there.
Jim [Root, guitarist] is on fire here. His versatility runs throughout, to the point that I’d consider this to be his record, tbh. As you can probably gather, I’m not a fan of Crahan having an elevated stake in the decision making… and an actual drummer would have elevated this record quite a bit (it’s the big thing lacking here).”
Speaking about finally releasing the long-awaited project for Record Store Day, Slipknot said in a recent statement: “We knew we were heading down a different creative path, entirely apart from Slipknot, and we followed it eagerly. We called the project ‘Look Outside Your Window’ as a tribute to this experimental spirit.
