MERCURY REV - Snowflake Midnight
Reactions are already divided about the electro-happy turn taken here, but, to the band's credit either way, at least people are back to talking after a two-snooze run following the highlights that lit up Deserter's Songs. Anyone allergic to Donahue's LSDisney doggerel ("Senses On Fire"'s "Ready or not/Here I come" Broken Social call across the playground; "People Are So Unpredictable"'s lapse into hackneyed "There's no place like home" lament) could cheap out and go with free instrumental download companion Strange Attractor instead, although, misgivings aside, muting those helium vox would alter Midnight irrevokably. Strange relations in the Lips again supplanted?
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