1001 Albums Summary

If you like The Beatles, you'll like this. Time of the Season is a bop and the album as a whole sounds beautiful. It just doesn't grab me the way some other plays 60s rock does.

Light, airy pop tracks with an almost shoegaze quality to the vocals. Within a couple songs you'll be able to tell if you'll enjoy this album or not.

Simple melodies start off quite a few of the tracks, reminiscent of the early British invasion. Vocals are tinted with a smidge of grudge and angst you'd expect with rock bands in the 90s. What makes this album shine is the bands exploration of sounds between tracks. Notably, the eponymous track comes in with a lo-fi high energy rock song coupled with a string arraignment that would be fitting with a James Bond theme. They follow this up with a harrowing acoustic track (Small Black Flowers) that sucks any energy you might have taken from Everything Must Go by the time the sweeping notes of the harp enter.

Absolutely love the percussion beats throughout this album. The fusion of genres are interesting and add a nice dynamic. Where this album loses me is with the horns. They're used to great effect when accenting the lyrics or to convey emotions, however every song begins with a 6-8 minute build driven by the horns without introducing any ideas or emotionally resonating. As such, I found myself struggling to continue, despite knowing I would enjoy each track by the 9 minute mark.

She has a good voice and is a solid songwriter but this just doesn't do it for me.