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As counterpoint, it sure as hell doesn't give you any anti-hipster cool to talk shit about hipsters. If you like the music, fine. I don't like it, so I say my mindful and carefully considered piece and go listen to something else. Your e-grandstanding reeks of post-hipster sad-cat pomp and frankly it's a fucking useless commentary. 90% of your "review" was ad-hominem attacks to be lost in the void of your mind. Big balls though, telling people to stop trying to be cool as fuck. Clearly you're inattentive to irony, so to that I must vigorously say: Pot, meet kettle. God damn, I just owned you.

No hook. Lyrics sound pretty sophomore year english lit. Production is ok but it sounds to me that the production is trying to save a sub-par song, rather than create a memorable stereo environment for a great song. And yeah, that guitar line is absolute throw-away. Rating: Meh + (on a scale of Taint Punch, Meh, Pretty Cool I Guess, Yeah More, Holy Balls)

I really can't see where you're getting the "polished and clean" bit from. Not to discredit your opinion, but I find the production to have mindful, musical noise, distortion, and grit all over it. I can see the attractiveness of the "out of control" feelings you liked on their self-titled, but I have to respectfully disagree with your overall superlative that the album "sucks." I'm personally jacked up about it.

I'm for sure excited about this album. Their arrangements and production choices never cease to amaze me. Memorable melodies, big hooks, with a modern art sensibility that I personally can't help but embrace. I'm buying this one. With moneys.

I just can't get behind this band. After listening critically to their first album, it left me with no inclination to buy the record or listen to those songs again. This sounds like more of the same. Maybe it's the production choices (her vox seem overdriven for cool, not for song, and her "toughness" doesn't sell), the melodic ideas are boring, and the lyrics are horrible. On the flipside, the rhythm section locks in like a MUG, and JW's guitar bits are bad ass (although a bit grating and laborious at times). It's just another vehicle for JW's guitar grandiosity, and for me it has "fizzle" written all over it.