If The Beatles'd been around in 1980 they'd have made this album. In this world, some say that it's just a throwback to the Rubber Soul days. Some say it's just a swing at catching up to post-punkers like Gang of Four and The Jam, that new mod vanguard. And the rightminded love it in spite of // on account of all that, hearing a fearless, strange update of a golden age.
Back in this reality: some weirdos made this fearless, strange update of a golden age: lovesongs offset by Cronenbergian details (Kingdom of Love), glistening harmonies offset by sheetmetal jangle (I Got the Hots), everything wheeling off to some lookingglass wonderworld, familiar and bracing and slithering with menace 4/5
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