thinwhiteduke

So safe and familiar that it almost falls into self-parody, most evident on "The Academy Award", a track that sounds like it could have been written by a band who just heard "The Dark of the Matinee" for the first time.

Unfortunately, this is every bit as formulaic as you would expect from a band whose peak came many years before. (But what a peak it was.)

I was a bit put off by the first track on my first listen (how dare he sing in a nearly normal pitch!), but the rest of the album ranks among the best work he's done.

Shame, much like Idles in early 2017, have set the post-punk bar high for 2018.