It's going to take me a while to wrap my head around this album, was not expecting this direction, had more or less given up on new music from them altogether. It's strange hearing all these electronic elements after they pretty much abandoned that aspect of their music for the last 20 years.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:23 (one month ago) link
this owns
― ciderpress, Saturday, 30 March 2024 01:53 (one month ago) link
i like this but am still not entirely sure what to make of it, it's wild
― ufo, Saturday, 30 March 2024 23:41 (one month ago) link
it is equally irritating and compelling?
― ufo, Monday, 1 April 2024 13:13 (four weeks ago) link
It's oddly the most personal album Sean's made. Some of the lyrics are actually about feelings & thoughts. Granted, I read a couple interviews for added context, particularly this one - https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2024/03/30/sean-ohagan-that-lovely-beautiful-humanity-i-had-with-cathal-coughlan-in-those-later-years-was-amazing/
I really like it.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 1 April 2024 14:31 (four weeks ago) link
Best HL album since Gideon Gaye. I'm surprised by how much I'm liking this and I generally hate autotune but the Bonnie Prince Billy tracks are really effective. "Sisters Friends" has really grown on me too. He seems to have finally shaken off his Beach Boys obsession (although traces are still there of course). Sounds contemporary but still with enough avant pop leanings and nifty chord changes to make it distinctively O'Hagan.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 6 April 2024 12:29 (three weeks ago) link