I hate to use the word 'adorable' in an album review, but that's about the only word that really comes to mind with this album. While the lyrics here are often downbeat and introspective, the music is so technicolour. It's hard to believe this album was made as late as 1999 - it sounds like peak-era psychedelia, both in the sunny, wide-eyed mood, and the incorporation of all sorts of bells and whistles into their sound. It's almost impossible not to like an album as joyous as this; personally, I'm crazy for this sort of stuff, and When Your Heartstrings Break is clearly going to be an album I return to a lot. My discovery of Elephant 6 is effecively in its infancy (I think this is only the third album on the label I've heard), but this makes me very excited about hearing more. This is just great pop music.
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