This album has made me a fan though. That must be how I know them. Just brilliant! Do You Realize is a song I do know - but it's not on this album. They did a concert during the pandemic in bubbles and the audience was in bubbles too. The more I read about these guys the more I like them. They lead vocals on Race for the Prize sounds like Neil Young.I never would have listened to this or gave it much of a thought. As this album goes, I like it more and more. I like the whole weirdness of it. Music, lyrics, experimental stuff all mixed up. There's so much happening with these songs.
There’s one interesting and progressive reflection (“The Spiderbite Song”) on how events in other people’s lives affect their relationships with us, but it lacks depth.And the lyrical weakness is not helped by the music. Not much to really grab on to. No soul, son.They display a certain fondness for non-referential paronomasia (meaningless puns) and the kind of logical puzzles that occupied the minds of the brighter students in middle school. Sprinkled with very occasional profundity, the lyrics are outside the mainstream, reflecting thoughtfully on topics that frequently don’t merit reflection. “The Soft Bulletin” by The Flaming Lips (1999)The geek who desperately wanted to be cool, not comfortable in his own skin (or why not all STEM students are artists). The Captain Is a Cold Hearted and Egotistical Fool Lyrics. Like yes, bang bang, give us nothing!And is it just me or did the lead vocalist sound like Paul McCartney, but STRAINED? Like he was forced to run a 10K while singing exceptionally hollow lyrics. The background vocals combined with the sporadic bursts of percussion, jeez, I couldn’t help BUT nod my head. Ha.The album began so obnoxiously with The Race for the Prize I actually LOLed! The drummer’s little “one, two, one” couldn’t prepare me for that woefully rambunctious not unpleasant whatsoever madness at some point a car alarm went off outside and I didn’t notice for a good 20 seconds because I thought it was part of the song. Over the loudspeakers in an off-brand pharmacy.How about with the horrendous arrangements? Some of them started off innocently, like the slow opening credits of an old Disney film, but then a swarm of whining metal wasps enter to help arrange these disasters - er, sorry, REmasters. What is going on with the weird drum drops or whatever it is? I don’t know who would listen to this voluntarily.The Observer and The Gash are the only song I Liked™ off this album.Suddenly could’ve been great with a different singer, different melody and other lyrics.Brappappapp finds its bearings in the lofi 90s again, and I could possibly listen to it again. Gold cheat the sims 3 androidAfter all, the band somehow has over 1. Wait, don't be offended, it’s honestly refreshing!It could also be that I’m laughably wrong and the album is too sophisticated for my measly uncultured in the genre of reverby rock (or wtvr this is) mind to process. Except for the first two, the tracks melted into an indiscernible mass of misplaced drums and ridiculously elementary, LITERALLY the tackiest lyrics I’ve seen in a long time. And become one with the dead mosquitos on my window net.With all that being said (I hope it was comprehensive enough), I think I might have weakly enjoyed this if I was unwillingly under the influence of some mysterious psychedelic plant, maybe the Flaming Lips have some to spare? Look I appreciate profundity in simplicity, but this was uh … pretty bad. This is the ENTIRE song (don’t worry I don’t think I can get a copyright strike bc of how deliciously generic the lyrics are):At this point I really felt myself begin to disintegrate.
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