very unfortunate how weak this is overall because a good amount of cool moments & ideas. half these songs are just nothing tbh

I agree. Something like Loser doesn’t sound like it belongs on the rest of the album for example, even though it’s a great song to me. And that’s an example of him “compromising” for the fans who don’t really like the dance sound he was going for on a lot of it. I still like a decent amount of songs off the first couple listens though

My Old Ways
Dracula
Loser
Oblivion
Obsolete
See You On Monday
Afterthought

This HARD

strong 3 incoming from Fantano

No Reply is sick

Midlife crisis lyrics and aesthetics though wtf is a 40 year old man doing with a wolf cut talking about I’m a loser

Slow rush
Currents
This
Everything else

Argue with your mother

Oblivion is ass lmao what happened to this guy

Yikes

Cry bout it

Always feckin

Up to somethin

I get the message

I learned my lesson

E-streets 😂🤣

Interesting. I think a few drinks will make this album very nice for me

Will update later

first thing that popped out to me when listening to this album was how colorless it is...which i guess is kinda alluded to with the art but still i'm not a big fan of this stripped back sound there's moments on this album that i fw but overall it's easily his weakest work

Oblivion not it

Ok but what does the local pub say

the "progression" on these songs for the most part just sound like cut and pasted loops that kevin wasn't sure how to develop into fully formed ideas. dude can obviously write a phrase, i'm just not sure if this minimalistic approach is his biggest strength

H&M music

Not my world vocal

This is not good at all

exactly bro. I mean compare the progression & song structure here to anything off Deadbeat. it's like he forgot how to make fully fleshed songs out of great ideas, and the 4 on the floor s*** he's doing isn't interesting or executed well enough to justify the songs being so stagnant and underdeveloped. but there's still a lot of very interesting ideas & sonic choices that make it overall a frustrating listen

Piece of heaven

edit: The very end of it piano part sounds good tho

the poppy stuff on here ends up being the best and most realized songs, mostly because that's light work for him, he's beyond proven himself at making palatable psych pop