If Astral Coast (my favorite album of 2011!) was a rogue wave, Pythons is a surfboard, sporting a tighter, sleeker sound: the beats clip with NYC metronomy, the song structures are more snuggly ratcheted into place, and everything rings like it was designed by the hand of man. The scruffy charm is gone, the boys have jobs now, and that job is to rock. And sound more like (good) Weezer than ever.
At least the carefully designed sound is well-designed, with guitar slashes and distorted shrieks piping in to provide rhythmic punch at the climax of the choruses and bridges. Some of the tracks (I Was Wrong) spin in place without catching onto anything, but for the most part its actually a pretty crafty little album, taking a careful few chances, sticking all its landings, proving hookier and hookier with every listen 3.5/5
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