In itself very clever that you can sound so different on your 14th album than on the predecessor, like the avant-garde rockers of Deerhoof from San Francisco. At first hearing, after the 2015 pop , The Magic is a lot of unstructured noise. After several spins, things fall into place better. The opening trio still sounds like a runaway at the time of Fell In Love With A Girl. Then follows the
… beautiful Criminals Of The Dream, sung by Satomi Matsuzaki. The subsequent, slightly like Model Behavior, however, goes down again due to its own freak. And then - among other things - a cover of from 1941 (I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire), an instrumental niemendall (Patrasche Come Back) and a pastiche (Plastic Thrills). All well done, but after 40 minutes also quite tiring - a problem that you often have with bands that feverishly try to 'not fit in a box'. (RME)more
