i can see that, just on first listen some of the rhythmic looseness made me think VoT more than UtB
― tylerw_sandbox, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
idk why there is dislike for this album, I have listened to it once so far and it is sweet. there is some talk of cohesiveness; when are gbv cohesive in an album? this one sounds moreso than alien lanes, etc ever did IMO! the first and second "half" have a markedly different vibe.
I am gonna listen to it again now.
― marc iv, Thursday, 22 December 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm listening to this a second time now, it sounds a little bit better but still not very good. Too many of the tunes are just ugly-sounding and/or boring to listen to. I mean I always loved the way Pollard could fit a great vocal melody into a scrappy snippet of a song like 'Volcano Divers' or 'Hey Aardvark' but there's not really any of that going on here. I still think '...Fats Domino' is great, I might just buy the 7" of that.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
marc the cohesiveness in gbv albums come from some amazing sequencing, and I wasn't feeling that flow in this one.
― Evan, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link