Personal Life (2010)
I've seen several people post about it in the Recent Purchase/Download and Albums You're Digging threads, including myself (download). I'm just now getting around to playing it for the first time. Thought I'd bring the discussion over to the band's thread.
My intial thoughts? Sounds good and I think I'll get much enjoyment out of it. But what I find a little peculiar is that several people (here and elsewhere) have said they like it better than
Now We Can See, with one saying it was perhaps "a return to form". This I don't really understand. I for one really liked
Now We Can See. But that's not the problem. The problem is that so far I'm seeing the new album as much more mellow than
Now We Can See, and that's where I fail to see why fans of their older albums didn't like that one but like this one more. Maybe it's not about the loundness of it, but the songwriting. I don't know. Either way, I'm enjoying this, just trying to understand where people are coming from, what made that album a hick-up for some fans, so to speak. Because for me, it had a more consistent sound to the older stuff than this one.
(current song "Your Love Is Strong" is less mellow and goes well with the older albums, I suppose)