I generally enjoy most of this, yeah. The first album is a little too weird, a little too extra for me on average. There’s some cool stuff in there but on the whole it kind loses me. Albums two and three, O My Heart and Eureka, are good. I like those albums, I officially call those good albums. They’ve still got tons of the character that make the first album interesting, but they’ve also been refined a bit, gained a bunch more listenability. After that, from album four on, I’m kinda bummed out. It’s just, I liked two and three so much, because those showed me a version of them that I would have been so into, and then they went somewhere different. They kept refining, they kept polishing, they kept poppifying, and I think in so doing they lost most of the wacky weirdness that was attractive about them to me at the beginning.
They never really moved back into the version of them I liked with albums two and three, but from albums six on they started to get back some more life and flavor, even if the life and flavor was something a little different than it was originally. They gradually worked back into something I think I could be invested in. Album nine, Grief Chapter, is their most recent as of time of writing, and it’s the first one since Eureka that I really feel like might have a chance of pulling me in again.
I’m thinking a B+ is appropriate. I like a lot of this music, I enjoy a lot of it. I almost liked them, I got pretty close, they made a decent case for it for a while, but they just couldn’t hold my attention. They brushed by what would’ve sold me, but ultimately moved somewhere else. Which is fine, it’s how it goes. Still pretty good
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