Exploded Drawing

Really good shit. I love the fluid songwriting, the great intermingling of textures and timbres, the driving rhythms, and Ash Bowie's great, tongue-in-cheek, and at times truly sentimental singing, with delicate melodies like on "Light of the Moon." I love how raw and natural the production sounds, you can truly hear the physical space of the studio, and this physical aspect is very effectively used in songs like "Street Knowledge" and the more experimental interludes like "Monolith" and "Missing Receipts." The album is bookended by the driving "Fast Canoe," with a truly great chorus and great use of guitar distortion, and the epic closer "When Will Die for the Last Time in My Dreams," with its intense noise, wandering song structure, and mix of irony and truly emotional bitterness, sadness, and anger. The only negative is that some of the interludes are a little brief and uninteresting.