Reptillians was one of the first albums I gave a full-on FIVE to on this blog - something about its wiry Unicorns-via-DanDeacon electronics and hooky indie crooning just got my heart banging.
One recent half-drunken 2am I got all fired up all over again. Goddamn those synths! Those doubledup hooks on Medicine, the unstoppable disco of Boy Toy, into a delightful suite of instrumental jams; just wracked with grooves. I willed myself to bed after track 5, aflutter with the promise of tomorrow's finishup listen.
But circa track 6, a cover of Girls Just Want to Have Fun stops everything dead in its tracks. The cover itself is gimmicky and unnecessary (they're boys, geddit?), but it also just happens to mark the Empty line on a frontloaded album - the 3 extra tracks that justified this once-EP's rerelease add five forgettable minutes, and the closing track's a needless rehash of one of the bands first sorta-hits.
Frustrating! Those first 5 tracks all alone would have made for an all-time EP to be reckoned with. Points for that hypothetical, recreatable, tight little package, but this coulda been a full-on contender 4/5
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