Written in retrospect. On this album, you can feel NO progressively stop trying, a trend which was visible on previous albums on the vocal side especially, but which is now really flagrant. The vocals feel more and more cheesy, unimaginative, uninterested even. 1 is a nice enough song, but all the grit is gone. The album intro is cool but the vocal unfold is a bit of a disappoint. 2 is a lot better, and though the vocals are cheesy, the chorus is really fun, the synthwork is great, and the funk is on. 3 starts off similarly albeit a bit more melancholic, but unfolds into a super cheesy, almost christmassy song. 4 has an incredible technoey almost intro, but then the unfold with autotune is really weird. It's leather pants core as hell, and ends on a fadeout, but it hsa fun disco housey bits. 5 is funky and has fun guitars at 3:10, but man these vocals are really uninspired. 6 has a bit of a Madonna quality to it, eh I dont mind it. 7 has a funky intro but really you start to feel this album did not age well. 8 is kinda fun until it unfolds. It really lacks compositional substance and isn't explosive enough to cash in on vintage value. 9 has a cute synths that feel almost DS, but then has a terribly bad unfold. 10 tries a bit more instrumentally, and 11 does have the merit of also trying something different for its intro and isn't terribly unpleasant. But yea the band feels like it is running out of steam here. 3.25
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