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  • Summary: This is the second LP for the Chicago-based avant-pop outfit.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. This mixture of clattering, ramshackle arrangements and smartly put-together tunes... is an intriguing new direction for a band that previously seemed more interested in artsy, diffident post-rock.
  2. 60
    Refreshing, breezy rhythms propel densely intermeshed guitars and Jeremy Bolen's incantatory vocals. [Dec 2006, p.96]
  3. It's not that this album had to be catchy. But when an uninventive melody is rehashed ten times to the point that you wonder whether literal keys and strings are missing from the band's instruments, what you get is a diffusion line of a product that wasn't even selling well in the first place.

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