Titus Adronicus forever!

I actually tolerate the record. I feel Matt & Kim’s previous records kind of suffer from not flowing well and feeling half baked. With sidewalks, it deffentily feels like a finished package. However, the album doesn’t have any daylight moment or any big song like that. Also, I would have to agree that sometimes it feels almost to poppy and needs to sit back and let the chord progressions go somewhere other then where they are predictably going. On the same token, there are some good tracks, Block after Block is super rad and I like Wires. Cameras was cool at first but its starting to loose its luster.
If I could sum up this record in a metaphor of sorts, it is a reverse The Pains Of Being Pure at Heart self-titled record. When listening to the POBPH album for the first time its way to poppy and not at substincy enough buy through more and more listens the substience and depth of the record slowly reveals its self to the listener and it shows how great and beefy the album truely is. With Sidewalks it starts out kicking ass but the more you listen to the preview singles and the album it might slowly fade.
I’m not saying it’s a bad record, I’m saying its got good ideas but it takes some time to see whats really going on, and the results aren’t entirely rewarding, though there is some benifit