I gotta say this and A Fever You Can't Sweat Out are like day and night or black and white. Cause AFYCSO was very fast with catchy quick lines accordions and bizarre lyrics. This is a much slower calmer obvious album. It's not at all like their previous ones. "And thats ok I feel the same." about the band. I like the completely different direction they took their songs.
Favorites are "When the day met the night" "Pas de Cheval" and "That Green Gentlemen" they have catchy simple lyrics and fun sounds to them. It sounds very carnival unlike their first one which was very 'psychedelic circus' everything seems to have some acoustic guitar, trumpet and a harmony with Ryan Ross (finally) my only complaint is the intro of "The Piano knows something I don't know" Straight up out there. Like really go listen to this it is VERY weird but the song is such a nice song.
I think if i suddenly became a gym rat or a fitness person at all I'd listen to the first one when working out and the 2nd album when cooling down. Each brings something the other didn't have. The first one lacked any variety and this one brings that nice ordinary sounds I was begging for. I gotta say I have had this album playing non-stop in my head or about a week I have "when the day met the night" and "all was golden in the sky" written in about a dozen different spots.
"I'm sure it didn't ruin her it just made her more interesting" very true very true. This album isn't a love and first sight though, it requires 2 listens or so to really enjoy the subtle beauty of it.
Woah, I'm getting very NYT criticy now aren't I? I better stop.
KCTW
My shoulder hurts like a... BALLET. Sorry, that's a line in a song and i needed something to replace my derogatory word.
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