I have no doubt that to many this rating will seem inadequately small, but let me plead my case. I see a band here with a lot of potential, and a sound that is genuinely exciting, but there are also cracks to iron out. There are flaws on the album, I don't want to pretend there aren't. The changes to Sunglasses don't work and in many ways the hype outdid the actual thing because, at the end of the day, we only got like one new song and an instrumental. That's not a musical issue, but it still ...
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