An intoxicating mix of simple and complex, rustic and grand, blues-simple and frontier-seeking, landing somewhere between being the British Wilco and the British Beck. On one hand it's epic, running for a solid hour, packed with ideas, electronic burbles, strange Spanish samples, and a good old 9-minute track. On the other hand its downright homespun, specked with folksy stumbles, slide guitar swoons, and bushels of brushy drums. The sides offset eachother damned well, never letting things get boring, never letting them get overblown.
I suppose that means it never quite becomes the British White Stripes, nor the, well, also-British Radiohead, but I guess you can't have it all and have it all too.
And yeah, I'm rating this way higher than Raising Hell. I'm pretty goddamned white sometimes 4/5
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