banal

Despite his belief that what he’s imparting is radical or insightful, his claims are banal, his methods rudimentary, even the revelations about his intentions all too predictable.

Granted, “Out of Time’s” earworm “Shiny Happy People” is gratingly banal, but the album also features spoken-word passages, brooding bass lines and ghostly steel-guitar drone.

Maybe it’s the lie that they didn’t mean for you to uncover, told under the premise of protecting you from some painful truth, but deep down executed with the utterly banal intention of self-preservation.

Not at all, said the UK's Independent Newspaper, this record is "suffocatingly banal" and filled with "groan-inducing" lyrics.

Mr Baker said that society often "prefers monsters to look like monsters, adding: "It’s sometimes hard to accept that evil can be banal.. but we should not be so naïve.