Released : 20th October 2009
Sometimes I don't know what to think about Bradford Cox.
Sitting and listening to this I am conflicted.
Some of the material is very strong indeed. The rest I am not so sure about. There are strong melodies here and enough variety to ensure you don't reach for the stop switch. However I wonder at the overall pace of the thing which rarely gets above middling. Even on "Shiela" a mid tempo pace there is the sense that the guitars are dragging the thing back.
I'll leave the six track bonus EP to another date - suffice to say there is only so much shoe-gaze (sic) the brain can absorb in one day. The piece comes into its own with the epic "Quick Canal" which certainly gets the pace up and has excellent washes of distant guitar and the sorts of production values that one feels should have applied throughout.
All in all a curates egg but sufficient tidbits therein to allow it onto this blog.
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