I was pleasantly surprised by this, I think. Reggae is one of the things I still have particular trouble listening to. It is kind of hypnotic, it starts and then all of the sudden it stops and I didn’t really hear any of it. I try to think back and remember what I heard and I just hear, “baBUMbaBUMbaBUM”. That is still true here, but there were also some parts that felt like more than that, that I was able to hold onto in my head (and enjoy) a little bit more.
There was also a move, over the course of the band’s albums, toward something that definitely has roots in reggae and falls back to it, but that started to more closely resemble a pop/rock sound that I’m more used to. I’m more used to it, and frankly, I enjoy it more.
Overall, there were definitely parts of this that I came to like, or that I just liked kind of despite myself, but it’s still not something I’d really see myself falling in love with. I get the feeling, despite my lack of experience with the genre, that it’s pretty good at what it’s trying to do; I’m just not a huge fan of what that is—not right now, and I suspect not for a hot second. I definitely like them more than a C or a D, but I don’t actually, like, like them like them, so the bottom B- feels like a decent fit.
The Elovaters complete, now listening to: Roxette
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