After reading the pitchfork review of their new album, I had to listen to it. Thankfully I got in a brawl with my fiance, which meant I got left alone for awhile and decided to try the album out to see if it was as bad as this review said.
No, it wasn't. It was fairly mediocre. Almost like an album full of non-singles. This record, When You See Yourself, sounds like Kings of Leon re-recorded Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Vampire Weekend produced it.
It can occasionally hove into that "Use Somebody" territory which is some of the worst modern rock has to offer, but most of the time it almost sounds like they went for a lo-fi feel - it isn't lo-fi - but it feels like that's that's the style they're cribbing from.
I'll give it a 6/10. Not great. But far from the depths of dreck this band is capable of.
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