Review Summary: Unlike the last 3...
(Unfortunately)
This is one of their great albums. No? No? Yes. Yesssssss it is
If you say this isn't a return to form
you need reform
school
I can't believe old bastards made this, they did good
I wrote a long review on this album after one (way too) quick listen and gave it a 2.5. I've followed the band for a pretty long time, and have been disappointed since Wish in the albums they put out since that one.
In the first review I wrote that a few of the songs were really good, but not all of them.
Well, I've changed my mind. This is a great album. If this is their last album, they finished on a high note.
I hope some people younger than me discover the band through this album and then go back and enjoy their other good stuff.
The songwriting throughout the whole album is wicked and playful. It's upbeat and crazyified, like "the Top" was once upon. It's full of new inventive sounds for the band if you listen close. The song structures are fresh--like nothing they've done before, a lot of off-beat syncopation and looooooooong curlique melody lines that come together eventually, sort of. If this sounds like same old Old Cure to you, I submit to you, you're not listening, like I didn't at first.
Sorry this review is so short, Once you write one, you can't delete it, only edit, and I've completely changed my mind about the album.
It's hard for longtime fans of the band to realize the twenty years of bad (for this beeand) albums are over and this is another great one.
I didn't even give this album a try till seven years after it came out, my expectations were so low. Too bad for me. Hopipy Doiys ore heere ogoine bralala
Sorry. prematurely elucidated
Ain't a lotta bands kin make it great
like Dee's Brutish mates
fer Chrissake
Bang up job, Rob
A+, Russ
Swell, Nell.
A beauty, Judy
