On the first Implosion record in over 20 years, and the first with founding member John Davis since 1999, he and Lou Barlow kick things off in fine form with “Crepuscular,” a good song with not a whole lot to say. The album’s title track, however, is a fantastic little number and might be one of my standouts of the year. The vocals, the riffs, everything comes together and creates one of those instant classic tracks.
“My Little Lamb” is a folky type of track and it works too, maybe not as well as the title track but they can’t all be that good. The indie rock vibes are strong on “The Fact And The Fable” and they really work well in the song’s favor. Barlow and Davis were always great at presenting lo-fi indie rock and even though they’ve been gone for quite a while, they haven’t lost a step in their approach or presentation.
The penultimate track “OK To Disconnect” is a spry, jaunty number that really pumps life into the latter half of the record and is another highlight. What to make of the album closer, “Moonlit Kind?” An interesting, almost experimental way of ending the record, it’s more in line with what indie rock sounds like these days, but the more I listen to it, the more I enjoy it, even the extended instrumental outro.
This is half of a good record; 10 songs and about four to five are good, the rest are skippable. But the songs that are good are fantastic and stick out in their own special ways to make them more memorable than the songs that don’t work. All in all, this is a good and relevant comeback from a band that never compromised their vision and made the music they wanted to make, and they’re still proving that today.
