Surprised there hasn't been a thread or very little if any mention of this...

I've been pretty freaking enamored with this record the last month or two. It's crazy because the first run through I didn't like anything but "Diane Young" (I had heard it before), but now I think every song is equal parts amazing and indispensable to the album as a whole. The music is a big step up from their earlier albums, really dense and interesting in places. It's cool to me how people who were born after, say, 1985 or so, people who never [/i]consciously[/i] lived in a world where hip hop and to some lesser extent "electronic" music weren't mainstream sounds, now incorporate those kinds of sounds into "rock" music (I guess the analogue to this would be rap-rock or rap-metal, rock music created by an older generation that oftentimes felt like shoehorning a giant cock into...well forget it)

And there's lyrics about death and dying young which is something I've been dealing with a lot in the past year so maybe THAT'S what grabbed me. I'm not sure. I just know I'm really feeling this right now and listening to it a lot...

I've read nothing but great things, but last time I checked it wasn't on Rdio yet.

I wrote these guys off after the first one. Guess I'll check it.

I haven't found that deep of an emotional connection to it, but I do love how it sounds, and feel increasingly less guilty for it. I was prepared to not like this one – as I had been prepared to dislike the last one, hadn't heard the first – but it's definitely a thoughtful record, at least in production. I'll have to start listening to the words.

It's on Rdio.

I've really enjoyed it. I haven't focused on much outside of Ya Hey but everything has been solid and when a track comes on random i end up enjoying it.

I agree completely re: the progression in their music and especially their lyrics. I didn't really care for their last ablum but I've listened to this one more than any other new release this year.

i think this is probably my favorite album of the year so far.

Still in love with the first album.

Was worried that the second album was going to suck, but it didn't, and that's all it took to make me happy.

This new one I'm also in line with Yail. Didn't hit me right off the bat except for the few upbeat songs, but the more I listen to it, the more I like it.

Grandiose interpretations of a simple, slick and souless pop album perceived nouveau to those that listen to little new music
Your perseveration only reinforces a nearsighted impression.
Grass-fed bologna coated in truffle oil.

I enjoy their earlier stuff when I listen to it, but I rarely find a need to go back to it. That said, the extra hype on this one has me intrigued, but I'm not expecting more.

My favorite thing about Jerkass's dismissals is that he seems unable to form them without also insulting the people who would disagree. It gives the lie to premise of it being a real critique of music, and hints at the personal antagonism that was the only real point in the first place.

He also likes to use them big fancy college words to put us simpletons in our places.

PS - I don't think I like this album.

I was wondering where you'd come down on this one; not that there's a right or wrong answer (sorry Jerkass), just professional curiosity.

Still up in the air, but after my last listen I was kinda deciding that I just don't like the singer. I haven't really gotten a handle on the lyrics in a larger sense, but it's more his word choice, inflection, details like that. There's something kind of soullessly urbane about him. Or something.

On previous albums, they were bouncy and fun enough that it didn't matter.

I don't have to give a song-by-song breakdown to know I didn't like it after 3 full listens.
It never was a critique.
It was just an honest opinion.

It's a shitty forgettable album that will be a repeatedly found on a pawn store shelf next to the new queens of the stone age record.

Why don't you give me a "real critique" of this album, Squiggles? Lay it on me. Tell me what I'm missing, little corporal.
Focus. An album critique IS a big deal. And try not to step on your own toes!

I don't think he was defending me so much as making an observation about the pomposity of your post. You don't like the album? Great, plenty of albums out there. You are so crippled with insecurities that you have to be condescending and insulting? Also great, the world needs Internet Tough Guys (i guess)

Insecurity is not the only reason to be condescending and insulting.

Whatever gets you through, Bub.

I guess a false sense of superiority would be reason, too. Bottom line: the shit is tired.

Yail Bloor doesn't need me to defend him, and frankly I enjoy nothing more than seeing him get kicked in the nuts every once in awhile. It keeps him humble.

I just find it somewhere between funny and boring that you pretend to be even talking about an album when in reality, your only purpose is to pick fights. It never had anything to do with Vampire Weekend, or some kind of food somebody said they liked, or drinks, or whatever else the thread topic du jour was. You find someone saying "I enjoy ____" and then shit on them in the guise of shitting on it.

And this is what you wanted, so this is a good day for you.

for real? I thought you were making fun of those kinds of opinions and thought it was a pretty sweet post.

I make them sometimes and they are real fun.

This is kinda b.s. but I'll give ol Jerkass credit for this part:

An opposing opinion amongst a bunch of flatulence-huffing chucklefucks is picking a fight?
Squiggles et al. are defending college bronies again and again without offering anything to the conversation.

All this back-slapping, cock-sucking, self-aggrandizing Georgia-flavored bullshit alienated and killed this board.

I didn't have a problem with you having an opposing opinion and told you as much. So given that, I'd say yeah, you are picking a fight at this point.

Kisses, my man.
Just cool out! Check out "Slow hand's" 50 scattered prop guitars that he could play all at once if he wanted to.
He's just taking some time off to lay down a deep ass jam because he can.
This song is bursting with rich, dark flavor. It pairs well with a smooth cup of coffee.

Cheers!