(I know, I know, you're all like, zomg, Hypatia's Girl still has a blog? Weird, totally forgot about that. Well I was busy, had to go be a mistress of philosophy and drive across PA. You know, the state that gets in your way when you're trying to get someplace else?)
I'd anticipated not liking this album at all, and so was pleasantly surprised to find that the instinctive dislike for the album was a product in inherited distaste rather than any knowledgeable sort of disagreement.
It's not my favorite by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not a bad little album. Owing to my suckiness at keeping up this blog I probably have listened to this album 3 times over the course of a couple of months, it goes better with sunshiny days when one is driving to a potentially awkward lunch than it does with the blah, gray barrenness of driving up US23 to restart a part of your life from a different perspective.
The beginning of the album didn't really catch me, a little too quiet and the vocals seemed a little superfluous. However it really picks up in the middle rocking out some really great tracks (at least ones that fit my driving-up-US23 mood a little better) like "The Last Days of Disco" and the cover "You Can Have It All." (I'd watch the video, it's kind of amazing) Of course, "rocking out" might be a sort of strong label for this.
Over all, a nice, mellow album, not necessarily something you play to listen attentively to all the way through, but a nice thing to have and pick up threads over the course of an hour or so.
Favorite Track - "The Last Days of Disco." Just fun.
Least Favorite - "Everyday." It's the opening track and it just did nothing for me.
next up - Antics - Interpol (2004)
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