With the gorgeous, invigorated Eight Radar Brothers have opened up new avenues for the band, especially if they keep this expanded roster, which fleshes out the songs in new and interesting ways.
While first impressions may leave Eight sounding a little too uniform for some peoples' tastes, the album's complexities are revealed over a few listens.
This is the eighth Radar Bros. album and the eighth one that's too inconsistent to push them from the periphery to the center of discussion, a handful of truly striking songs padded out by a greater number of perfectly pleasant ones.