Crosswords

He explores the mundanities of the real world in his angelic voice, giving them a startling beauty and pouring them out in little spiked Dixie cups.

The five songs on the Crosswords EP sound like tracks that come easily to him, songs he knows how to make without stretching himself.

Crosswords is essentially outtakes from PBVSGR (with one cut left over from Tomboy), and while it's clearly more of the same, it's an enjoyable, compact dose of chilled, effervescent electro-psych-pop, and it functions as a handy reminder of how far Lennox has come as a songwriter.

Crosswords mostly puts those self-reflective missives to one side, and instead stands simply as a playful set of songs that, "Crosswords" apart, didn't make the album.

Crosswords, as a collection of loose leaves, doesn't have the weight of Grim Reaper but that also means it doesn't have the pressure. Crosswords is something you can just consume without trying to wring every inch of intent out of it.

The EP ... sounds of a piece with this meshy Greaper whole, but either in its brevity or repetition, it takes on a more therapeutic candor.

Though Crosswords’ lackadaisical pleasantness is by no means offensive, there’s no compelling reason for this EP to exist.