Seven years is a long time to be away. Considering this is Imperial Teen\u2019s first record in that amount of time and only their sixth disc puts a lot of pressure on it to be amazing. <\/p>\n
Well, wouldn\u2019t you know it? This is one of the best records of the year.<\/p>\n
Opening track \u201cI Think That\u2019s Everything\u201d is lively, electronic-based, and outstanding. Roddy Bottum\u2019s vocals sound really great and help give the song an almost ethereal feel that I was really looking for without even realizing it. \u201cParade\u201d follows a similar route and is another just surprising, outstanding track.<\/p>\n
Taking a detour from the alt rock from the past, the band follows a bit more of an electro rock future that works in their favor exceptionally well. \u201cDon\u2019t Wanna Let You Go\u201d is a perfect example. \u201cWalkaway\u201d just might be one of my top songs this year; the vocal dynamics between the guys and girls is as pristine as it was on the first record back in \u201996 and it\u2019s only gotten better. This one is just a perfect pop song.<\/p>\n
Though it is the shortest song on this too-short album, \u201cSomebody Like Me\u201d just may be one of the best song the band has ever created. It\u2019s breathtakingly beautiful, haunting, and serene. A song like this is something any music fan could enjoy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHa\u201d sounds like really cool New Wave with some outstanding harmonies. The album\u2019s closing title track wraps everything up in a crisp, fresh bow. It\u2019s a slow crawl of a track that you really don\u2019t want to end; it\u2019s just that great. It\u2019s nice to see that there are still musicians who only get better in their performance and songwriting capabilities as the years go by. Roddy, Will Schwartz, Jone Stebbins, and Lynn Truell have clearly made one of the most dynamic and excitingly beautiful records of the ye \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10397],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45672","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-imperial-teen","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45672"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45672"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}