Review Summary: Neither under or over baked.
I like bread, I like bread of all types and sizes although white bread is my least favourite and practically tasteless. I love a delicious bread collection and in
Reason in Incline, the bread offered tempts the palette but doesn’t quite satisfy. The first track checks out as quickly as it enters like white bread, and like white bread it’s quite forgettable. The next track is white bread once again - not filling enough! Screaming Undercover spices it up with some punk ***, but it’s more like OK Go pop rock than something edgy.
After the first three tracks, the album completely changes pace. The fourth track is a boring, skippable track but the fifth track has a pleasant vibe and lightly plucked guitars like the pitter patter of birds walking. The next track is even better - In the Surface Noise brings a classic rock feel mixed with indie in a tasty bread pudding. Then there’s Breaking Even, a cute pop rock track with surprisingly succulent guitar hooks. At this point in the album I realized it’s actually quite enjoyable. There is enough crunch to provide a wonderful breaded treat.
If Arcade Fire and Coldplay weren’t boring as Hell they might’ve made an album like this. An album that has much variety despite a cemented style. In one mouth watering bread crunch, multiple flavours can emerge from the same floury mound. Every track save one is catchy, the production is perfect, the singing is pleasant, the drums are bumpy, and the guitars have a delightful tone. The album may not be original indie music in any meaningful way, but when music sounds this good I don’t give a ***. Enjoy what they have bred.
