I'll admit I'm perplexed about a lot of the bands being acclaimed nowadays but this one is particularly odd to me. I saw this band open up for Wild Nothing a while back and all my friends and I agreed that the forced falsetto was a train wreck (guy can't sing for anything) and the songs, though occasionally stumbling onto a few moments of horn filled fun don't amount to much and are sloppily assembled.

So this week i've been seeing all the rave reviews from several sites especially credibility challenged Pitchfork and I decide to give it a listen. It's even worse on record. Songs have half the energy of the live performance and the vocals are even worse. There's been loads of great music lately that was completely ignored and I'm continually befuddled about the qualify of stuff being raved about.