Loved these guys' early stuff, and like this too. It's hooky, lightly twisty indie rock that'll keep you entertained through every moment of the listen.
But goddamn if a single note of it stuck with me after 2 full playthroughs. Josh Grier's voice finds the same basic croon and locks in, the band backing gamely, but there's none of the spark of The Loon's highlights: none of The Illiad's raw postpunk startstop, Jakov's goinforit intro, or Insistor's insistent stomp, and no comparable swings for the fences to make up for it. Just a band trying to be too pretty, lacking hunger, lacking edge, unwilling to reach out and grab us 3/5
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