Boys And Girls in America

I don't miss the indie landfill years. This is marginally better than the dreck of that era, but it wasn't memorable.

Music for the iPod generation. I found the lyrics to be cynical, often veering towards misogyny. The mid 2000s was a desolate wasteland for music, and while this isn't the aggressively bad worst of it, it's not something I would ever actively choose to put into my earballs. I say at the top of this review that it's music for the ipod generation, because it sounds like it has been mastered to listen to on cheap-end earbuds, which was the style at the time.

This just felt a little nostalgic for a kind of thing I never missed.

pretty basic rock

Ok

Bigger, brasher Arab Strap with any subtlety jettisoned. I love Arab Strap. Not this.

Holys hit. Some absolute bullshit once again. Why am I listening to these? Just skip them. It's obviously going to be fucking bad. You don't have to figure it out with an "open mind". Just fucking quit

I had hope for the first song but it soon went away. I have nothing good to say about his voice, and couldn’t focus on anything but that.

Mmmmm.....is this from 2006 or 1986? It's quite bland and derivative. I think the issue is around the 'cult of the new'. You get into a trendy band that spreads via social media withouth realising they sound identical to other bands and singers from decades before. Not to say it's bad. Just unoriginal.

This album sounds like it's violently fighting against every interesting idea that pops into its head.

Paint-by-numbers, boring rock for paint-by-numbers, boring people who've not heard enough music to actually know what's good out there. Guy who recommended this, how's much cheap beer do you consume in a given week?

There were times when it sounded like Bruce Springsteen but in indie music fashion. None of that is a good thing. Thankfully, it was short.