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Top Track: Random Rules

As soon as you listen to the first line in Random Rules, "In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection", you know you're about to listen to some of the best written poetry in music history.
American Water made me laugh, sent chills down my spine and at some points brought tears to my eyes, it's a melancholic masterpiece where Berman's lyrics become so potent it's hard not to find a few lines you love in basically every song, while also painting ... read more

Top Track: What You Know

When I was checking out to some of the tracks individually I thought this was gonna be a banger but listening to the thing as a whole... Kinda let me down. The album is good, don't get me wrong, and I do like the band's sound but it quickly got repetitive and looking back at it I don't think I can single out in my head a single individual track, it all kinda just melts together except for What You Know, which sticks out in the best possible way, an absolute classic of ... read more

Top Track: The Frontier Index

Huge improvement over their first album, the writing is honestly perfect, some of the best written lyrics I have ever listened to and the record boasts many of the band's strongest songs, from the gloomy How To Rent a Room to the interesting and eerie The Frontier Index. The whole experience felt to me like walking down a cold street at night but the last track was, in a way, a breath of hope that concluded the album in a very nice way.

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Top Track: Touch

I'm not crying, you're crying!