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Originally Posted by loveissucide
But considering how good A Ghost Is Born was, it was horribly disappointing to hear them regress like that to the Being There sound. Plus the songwriting wasn't 100% up to par.
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I was very familiar with
A Ghost is Born, which is an amazing album, when
Sky Blue Sky came out, and my initial impression of Sky Blue Sky was that it showed a dramatic upturn in musical maturity with a greater emphasis on individual and collective musicianship. In a nutshell, notwithstanding the fact that it's a much
different album than
A Ghost is Born or
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, It is an album that doesn't try desperately hard to recreate their own sound or accommodate listeners expectations. It's a very genuine, albeit slow and minimalist album, and I see it as one where the band really relaxed and became more cohesive as a group. Yes there is much less of catchy upbeat tunes and a lot of other elements that have defined them as a band, but I think that's what I really found so refreshing about it.