This layer has the best music and general aesthetics, but the bugs are just atrocious.
There's a lack of enthusiasm in this album that was so staunchly apparent in their former work. It's certainly not a bad or unenjoyable album. I quite like some of these songs, and tracks like James K. Polk still carry their trademark good sense of humor. But when I listen to a song like Pet Name, thinking it's quite good, I still am badgered by this feeling that there's a special touch-- whether it be a vocal intonation or a few instrumental adjustments --missing. If it had ... read more
I don't feel that this album is as air-tight as Apollo 18 and Flood, but it has some incredible standouts. I appreciate the more rock-focused approach of this album, as many of their former hits leaned further into pop. It's good stuff, overall, and I'm glad to have heard it.
Tally hall fans talk about the wrong album. This is where their best material resides
God DAMN does this album have some hot ass on it. The hitters hit HARD, though.
Ballad of a mechanical man, in the first place, and Clouds are great.
Full of a bunch of "good" songs, but none really blew me away as they did on Featuring "Birds."
As you listen to the gentle keystrokes and earthly mysticism of Ocean Man for the umpteenth time, you will soon learn that the greatest creative minds were never Da Vinci, Shakespeare or even John Lennon, but two men whose stage names derive from the word "penis."