Didn't see a thread about this album... seems to be getting overlooked. Anyway, it was released 2 weeks ago and I'm kind of geeking out over it. it takes quite a bit of time to sink in, but there are some great moments on this record. listening from start to finish, it's hard to tell when tracks begin and end... it's kind of like the listening process was for last january's best release, menomena's "friend and foe".

anyway, thoughts?

My favourite album so far this year by a long shot.

Yes, I agree with both of you, this album is seriously amazing. I wasn't expecting to like it since i didn't really dig their first record but this one is nuts.

I enjoy this album, but did anybody else find the chorus to the song "Midnight Vignette" eerily similar to Belle and Sebastain's "Like Dylan in the Movies"?

I've grown tired of this album, it doesn't really do anything for me anymore. I think a lot of it is just too over the top and crazy and a lot of parts in the songs are just fractured ramblings. Some songs are simply amazing and really good but others are just not that good at all.

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:
I've grown tired of this album, it doesn't really do anything for me anymore. I think a lot of it is just too over the top and crazy and a lot of parts in the songs are just fractured ramblings. Some songs are simply amazing and really good but others are just not that good at all.

I kinda agree, FKA. I guess you have to be in the right mood for it. Skeleton Man is a very good tune, but beyond that, it doesn't seem to consistently hold my interest.

Of course, FKA, you liked it plenty before the P4k review.

Does anyone else think that the opening of "Bellawood" sounds like the music they used to play in space mountain at disneyland?

I mean yeah, the record isn't perfect. The band has a lot of room to grow, and if anything, this album showcases astounding potential. It certainly got me through the typically driest period of new music being released- the beginning of the year.

Yea, there's always that backlash. I'm new here, so I'm just surfing around the threads. I actually like this album a lot and have downloaded several songs. I also more or less inherited the Belle and Sebastain album ("If you're Feeling Sinister")from my cousin, which I have listened to a great deal (excessively, I guess, I am getting a bit tired of it)and I don't hear any similarity between the "Like Dylan in the Movies" song to "Midnight Vignett." I like the latter better. I do sort of get the Space Mountain reference.

it was a very pleasant surprise for me to hear that album.i like it a lot at the moment.actually i love it , but i think its too early to make some conational rhapsodic comments about it.

I love this record. I highly disagree with P4k's dismissal of Bellawood as a miss on the album, I actually love it, one of my favourites. They are very cinematic and over the top through the whole thing, I don't see how Bellawood is any different.

Then again, who am I, right? Feel free to rebuttal that shit.

...back , cause its the best album of the year so far , in my poor opinion!from flaming lips to mercury rev , from spoon to of montreal , everythin is here.
waves of melodies , ideas , sounds n beauty flow around n creatin an addictive and orgasmic -musically- result.

formally agree with sk here...maybe among the top 3 albums so far this year. I love how the sound mix drops in and out. What they do with the production is both bold and daring, but they don't isolate you with "weirdness", as it ultimately pays off with some of the best tempo changes I've heard on a record in some time. This is a solid band. I do hear Mercury Rev and the Lips a bit.

Has anyone heard their first album "So Gone"? I got it when it came out and thought it was so so. I think maybe it was his voice that bothered me, but after listening to The Evening Descends, it is one of the main reasons I love that record. Going back, I actually am liking So Gone more and more after each listen. May be too early to say but I think this band, and their records, will be a benchmark in the experimental/psychedelic music scene of this decade.

so sad to read some really bad and low minded reviews about that excellent release...