Brings back a little more of the folk to resemble the earlier Low Roar output more than the prior album. And it works quite well. My main gripe with this is that the voices rarely deviate or surprise you, and so while in isolations the tracks can work very well, in succession it takes away a lot of their impact. After the nice intro on 1 which prefaces the return to folktronica and the overall sound on the album quite well, 2 is a really sweet and nice song, perhaps my fave here. I like the drums on 3 but his voice already feels a bit not quite in the right place. 4 is a nice piano ballad that you know isn't my cuppa but is fine, and then evolves into a synthy instrumental second half which is really cool and shows that he at least does not make the mistake of singing constantly and letting the instruments speak. 5 is a nice ambient transition into folkey stuff again, before 7 surprises us with some nice sax after the emotional but relatively skippable 6. Although it begins by an odd silence that I don't see the point of, 8 is quite superb instrumentally, but again the vox are a bit to blame - especially those few vocoded sections which I really do not get in the slightest. 9 is a nice lo-fi interlude kinda thing, and then 10 again is quite good instrumentally but is a bit of a snore vocally. The conclusion with the more intense drums and the synths and the brass-ish sounding elements and the strings later on is a really welcome surprise though, which bumps this half a point. 3.35
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