Chip
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It's been a year? Already? I still keep thinking somehow this a "new" album.
When it first leaked online I listened to it pretty obsessively for about two weeks. I really liked it. It certainly is a departure from the direction of the preceding two albums, which while I seem to be the only person to like Years of Refusal, was probably a good thing.
That being said while I still hold a high opinion of it as time wore on it has not been an album that I have frequently returned to. One of Our Own and Art Hounds were in heavy rotation for sometime after the whole album ceased to be, but I don't find myself compelled to keep going back to it like I do other albums. To be honest, I listened to it for the first time in awhile on my way to Madison Square Garden. I had forgotten how powerful Mountjoy and Oboe Concerto were and how much I like Istanbul and Staircase, but I haven't broken out my vinyl copy of it in sometime.
When it first leaked online I listened to it pretty obsessively for about two weeks. I really liked it. It certainly is a departure from the direction of the preceding two albums, which while I seem to be the only person to like Years of Refusal, was probably a good thing.
That being said while I still hold a high opinion of it as time wore on it has not been an album that I have frequently returned to. One of Our Own and Art Hounds were in heavy rotation for sometime after the whole album ceased to be, but I don't find myself compelled to keep going back to it like I do other albums. To be honest, I listened to it for the first time in awhile on my way to Madison Square Garden. I had forgotten how powerful Mountjoy and Oboe Concerto were and how much I like Istanbul and Staircase, but I haven't broken out my vinyl copy of it in sometime.