Maybe it’s a “sophomore slump” of sorts to some — despite this being their third album — since their big break came with the film “Garden State” just after 2003’s Chutes Too Narrow was all the rage. Will they really change your life? I think a lot of people thought they would and held this album to that standard. This was not that album. In fact, it was an album made for the people who scoff at such notions and wanted something beyond more of the same from the band. It’s mature pop, darker, weirder, a little off-putting — a decided step away from the candy-coated elixir of their first two albums that hooked so many. And it’s exactly the kind of move a band needed to make.
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