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I put this album on the car stereo on a whim yesterday...just another way to pass the time on my weekly Sunday drives, perpendicularly, accross UCLA.
I have to say that this album is still really good, and with it's elements of quirk, dream pop, and tendency to cresecendo, it will remain a listening pleasure for some time to come.
I can also see why so many were so quick to put it in the likeable, has potential, but isn't anything to run your car into oncoming traffic over pile. And it is for some of the same reasons that it is good: quirk, and an overrelliance on crescendo. The majority of the songs have a long build and then some kind of freak out at the end, all of which are awesome, but are also the mark of a band that has not yet fully formed its sound, and that is most likely the reason many of our more curmudgeonly (some might say wise, some might say hater-tastic) members were perplexed at the almost universal love for this album. It is good, but it's a debut. An uneven, awesome mess of a debut, that deserves much praise, but maybe not album of the year.
Sorry to re-open this debate, but this is what I thought of during 70 or so miles on 65 South.
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