Warbling grasps for the infinite that take ample pages from the mid-00's indie rock book of clever textures, evoking the likes of Spoon, Band of Horses and yes, former Meiburg / Sheff collaboration Okkervil River, in turn. Tension is the name of the game, built and built and then simultaneously released and regenerated, supplying the impression of release while providing little relief, allowing the song's stresses to intertwine with your life's again and again and thereby become familiar, and thereby lead the charge outward.
Musically, this is more upbeat, more driving and just plain more fun than the OR stuff, but that was a sound that was really at its best when its baring its heart. Here, at most, you are invited to bare yours, and have it pumped for you via pounding, woolen electricty.
The band themselves feel insulated, preaching from on high, reaching for 80's populist art-rock uplift, but somehow detached, undermining our ability to follow skyward 3/5
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