While No Love Deep Web is not the masterpiece The Money Store undeniably is, it still manages to be both a substantial step forward and, even more importantly, a work not easily forgotten.
Kill for Love‘s pop numbers are leaps and bounds better than almost anything else released this year, and when the album pulls away from them, it can’t help but lose quite a bit of its strength.
Whenever Krauss and Miller venture into familiar territory, and there’s plenty of cases in which they do, the album transitions from being a thrilling reintroduction into a merely serviceable repeat.
EP †† is the work of a band still very much trying to find their sound – a mix of interesting ideas that are either never fully realized or too quickly abandoned to hold any sort of resonance.
EP † ... is the work of a band still very much trying to find their sound – a mix of interesting ideas that are either never fully realized or too quickly abandoned to hold any sort of resonance.
It’s still the work of a band firing on all cylinders.