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Major Lazr's album is a bop, its so unrecognized though.
Was disappointed with Mosquito and Kiss Land a little bit, but they have their respective great tracks.
Maybe the fact that my favorite band released and album this year and I forgot all about it until last night speaks to the quality of that album. But idk man, this some sugar — EVEN IF each of their releases is worse than the one before it (), it's nice to see a band get happier as they evolve/gain popularity as opposed to more gloom and angst. A lot of the songs do fail to memorable like their past work, but they're still good and stuff so like who cares. Title track bangz.
It's weird to see this at or near the top of so many critics lists just because it comes off as so unassuming and unpretentious for stuff that usually winds up in that position. I'm not a complainer doe. 'power pop' can be a really ****** genre but this was the tippy top of that iceberg in 2013 where every song is a feel-good, every song can stuck in your head, every song has both enough and little enough going on at once that you can go as deep as you want in the listening process. None of them even bad looking either.
In case Pitchfork does select this as their #1 album of the year in light of this morning's events know that I had this down first. I have always liked Aub in spite of himself, and while this is no Take Care, as a chubbearded lil bundle of contradictions he does a lot on this one to flesh himself out. This white boy permitting a chica to have sex with him on 'Wu-Tang Forever' should be a desecration to the brand it's named after, but he's like so adamant about his g status that it comes off as genuine, and I feel like I should respect that begrudgingly. The track is great. Production coolly minimalist and James Blaky in parts and he was a cute photoshop baby.
I am still working my way into this band's music but just from my limited exposure I can tell what a progression this is from their debut album. More restraint in place of some of the old folky experimentalism pays off in places like 'Colombia,' which could the most beautiful/affecting song I heard this year. It's pretty.