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After reading through several pages of less filling and tastes great comments... I can across this...

it's like the anti mainstream indie record. I dig that it has a 70's vibe.

...which speaks to me.

 

And I bet some of you are right about Pitchfork comments. Most indie folks will likely scoff this type of a record and I bet... JT is smiling about that. Being There had a similar initial reaction. They've always been about turning the corner and re-inventing themselves. Well they've done it again. Bands like Wilco are visionaires - leaders not followers. I'm not worried. The others will catch up eventually.

 

I can sortof understand why most...don't appreciate soul music or music with this type of groove. Largely, it's been a black art form and I guessing most of us here in this forum aren't black. Admittedly, I'm not all that familar with soul music. But unlike a lot of rock and punk, there's real emotion and feeling in there.

 

Another point, with the current line up the musicanship has never been better. They sound like a band rather than a Pro Tools experiment and I like that.

 

That all said, I like the record but I'm still digesting.

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But unlike a lot of rock and punk, there's real emotion and feeling in there.

I read it without "a lot of" at first and was ready to jump all over you, but I agree with most of your post. Hell, I bet Pfork is kicking themselves about that AGIB review, but then again who knows...

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I can sortof understand why most...don't appreciate soul music or music with this type of groove. Largely, it's been a black art form and I guessing most of us here in this forum aren't black. Admittedly, I'm not all that familar with soul music. But unlike a lot of rock and punk, there's real emotion and feeling in there.

 

I'd like to point out that you can be a big fan of soul music and not necessarily think this album is a particularly great example of it.

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But I can see alot of other reviews not liking this album too.

 

I'm guessing that they probably won't know how to react to it. How many bands in 2007 (in the age of MP3s)still make album oriented records?

 

I'd like to point out that you can be a big fan of soul music and not necessarily think this album is a particularly great example of it.

 

Point taken. Stylistically...for any band to change it's stripes, it takes guts. Sometimes the risk pays off and sometimes it doesn't. In this case, I think they did a good job. They've got the chops and I think the pulled it off. Also, I think... they like the challenge. It keeps them interested.

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Pitchfork pans everything that isn't YHF or OK Computer.

 

I predict a 6.2

Which confuses my as to why the stuck behind Pavement through all the changes. Then again, most of their reviews for them are in hindsight or late in the game.

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This is MUCH more AGIB and YHF than most people think. It's just 99% less noise and 99% more structurally-based (e.g. fooling with rhythms, melodies, etc.) rather than basing it more on the texture (e.g. noise, which is the whole YHF-AGIB era).

 

I hear A LOT of YHF in this record - just no noise to accent it.

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