Both the above tracks would fit nicely if they were much shorter. Trying to rework the tracklist hammers-home how long a lot of these songs are, and how much more I'd love this album if they'd been trimmed down to about 3-4 mins each.
Motherboard is a contemplative interlude that also gives me early-2000s chillout vibes, or like something off of 10,000Hz. It doesn't really fit in with the rest of the album, so I can see why they tacked it on the end. Yeah, Contact and Motherboard are good in themselves but they can feel like interludes/fillers/surplus in context.Ĭontact is like a Mogwai 2000-style post-rock builder. the general slickness of everything feels hollow, it doesn't have the sort of richness of sound you can luxuriate in get from the things they're referencing. the soft rock ballads are nowhere near as good as "something about us" which was carried by it's production - if it was done in a similar retro pastiche style it'd also seem much weaker i think. It's a very frustrating album because i'm very sympathetic to most of their reference points here (except the middle of "touch" is absolutely not my thing) but it just doesn't come together for the most part. I also just hate a lot of the drumming on this album lol, it's just too like jazz-fusiony and that's not really what i want out of the sort of soft rock they're drawing on idk. pharrell's vocal is part of the problem there for sure. "lose yourself to dance" had potential but it doesn't quite pull off what it's going for, even in the single edit. the single edit of "get lucky" is fine but not good enough to survive how horribly it was overplayed.
i would like it a lot more if it were just a strokes song or even a julian solo song phrazes for the young style. I like instant crush a fair bit, mostly because i love julian's songwriting sensibilities, but it still sounds overly soft and anemic and just drags. the album edit of "get lucky" is the rare disco extended mix that doesn't need to exist too and neither "lose yourself to dance" or "instant crush" justify their near-6-minute runtimes When i was complaining about some of this being static/dragging, the tracks i was thinking about were "give life back to music", "the game of love", "within", "doin' it right".
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