So last night was listen number 4, and yeah it clicked. It's a great album. They have taken their slow burner formula to the next level. These songs demand to have time spent on them before they reveal their virtues. But the more times I listen to it, the more it also just sounds like any other album by them, by which I mean that the band is clearly alive and well and operating dynamically and organically in this new package, which at first calls attention away from the way the instruments were focused on in previous albums.
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