holy fuck. best christmas present ever, for real. summertime clothes=song of 2009 for sure. and holy shit, in the flowers is such a good fucking intro track, those drums gave me the chills when they came in. looks like im having a listening party at my apt tonight! haha
only gripes with the album thusfar though:
-i wouldve liked to hear more live drum stuff on some of the songs
-although you can hear a little bit of their tribal sounding influence, its much less than on other albums, im missing it a lot. case in point, i wanted to hear more of what was going on in the first 15 seconds of 'also frightened'
-gets a little too panda bear-ish at times.
-not enough yelling from avey/vocals sound too smoothed over at times
that being said, i LOVE the album. pretty much what i expected and then some, and i had some high expectations for this album too