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Originally Posted by eric generic
i can't agree with this. sounding cool isn't enough for me if there are no interesting melodies. and his songwriting is offensively simplistic. but i can't argue how cool some of the effects sound. ultimately, it is an album that gets one part right and all the rest wrong. so i can never love it.
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Well, by 'quality of sound', I don't mean it just sounds 'cool'. It sounds ridiculously original, like absolutely nothing else. The structure isn't simplistic; it's minimalistic, the difference being that the structure is almost never absolutely derivative, yet isn't comprised of too many parts. For example, "I Only Said" has a repeating guitar lick for nearly half of the piece, but during the verses, it's never nearly as redundant. Whatever the chord progression truly is, the instrumentalists never reduce themselves to blatant repetition of those chords in a boring manner. Even in the final 2 or so minutes of the song, where it's just repeating a little guitar lick, by listening intently with high quality headsets/speakers, you will truly hear a lot of sonic difference between each push, making the simplicity seem startlingly original.
I'll admit "Sometimes" is derivative, but it's not unoriginal or simplistic. It's still made up of the original guitar sound, with an infectious chord progression and the trademark vocals.
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