
I picked up this CD a few weeks ago and finally got a chance to listen to it. That said, it's been in heavy rotation for the past week. I'd picked up the group's previous two CDs, and they were enjoyable, but this set of songs has grown on me since first listen. There is some of the old feeling of previous works, but the music seems bolder and somehow more melodic. Standouts for me include "Confess", "Quarantine", "Do the Panic", and "Raise the Dead". They come across to me as a less obtuse Radiohead (is that heresy?). In fact in some alternate universe this set could be seen as a sort of follow up to The Bends - but maybe a bit poppier.
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