Like I said I don't think this particular album is pretentious. And there's nothing wrong with aiming high. But, I didn't feel this album aimed particularly high on purpose. It has something unassuming, so it achieves more than it appears on the first hearing. That's what makes it even better.
But, yes, I can find that even pure music that doesn't have any 'themes' or 'agendas' can be pretentious through the way it uses its form to insinuate greater depths than it has. For example, it can look more complex on the outside than on the inside. That's when I would use the word 'pretentious'.
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