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Tyler makes one improvement on Chromakopia in DON'T TAP THE GLASS, and it's the lack of pretention. What remains is the same grating singing, "quirky" production, and lack of likability.

Josh Groban flexes all areas of his musical skill, whether it be operatic singing, catchy song-writing, or beautiful taste for lush and grand instrumentation. Everything culminates in his most singular, cohesive, and exciting album.

This is the first album of theirs that I have really sunk my teeth into, and what I found was a haunting and yet aggressive set of tracks that flow beautifully and handle their lengths well. The instrumentation is dense and at many times the drums have clipping artifacts that add to the main attractor of this album; it somehow overwhelms even in slowness.

viagr aboys is the band's best output thus far, simply because it lacks the lows that other records would consistently have. Cave World and Welfare Jazz were held back by a mishandling of slower tracks that is better honed on this album. Lulls are pretty much absent, and in their place lie a raised lower quartile while the upper quartile remains precisely where it was before.