A hesitant step forward for The Districts. Lacking some of that dead-simple // secret-complex magic of their debut EP, this is a more-straightforward modern rock record, full of slowish builds, each-chorus-bigger-than-the-last-style. Only the first couple tracks really pull that off, but the fragile bedroom poetry of Suburban Smell mostly lands, and Young Blood seems tailor-made as a live set closeout raveup.
I saw these guys at the Sinclair a couple days ago (where they did, in fact, close with Young Blood) and they did fucking rock. There was something British about it, something classic, something 90's, just rock and roll and rock and roll. Whatever worked about it, it was in the details, in the nuances of the delivery, and its not something that they've quite managed to capture on this record.
See em live if they come to your town though. Great show. 3/5
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