'Things Are Great' is Band of Horses' best album in more than a decade. Read bcsalmon's review:
—each spilling over with crunchy-pretty guitars and Bridwell’s distinctive drawl and airy vocal melodies.—a title seemingly dripping with sarcasm. Across the album’s 10 tracks, we find Bridwell singing about crying at work and refusing therapy , panic attacks and physical harm , hard times and steep climbs , wheels falling off and picking up the pieces .
If there is a downside to consistency, it’s the danger of slipping off the slope into sleepwalking. It would be harsh to level that charge at Bridwell based on—this is probably the best Band of Horses album in 12 or maybe 15 years, after all—but when longtime fans listen to “Lights,” they’ll almost certainly hear echoes of “Weed Party,” a song from the band’s debut album. Such a strong resemblance is probably something to guard against.
Ben Salmon is a committed night owl with an undying devotion to discovering new music. He lives in the great state of Oregon, where he hosts a killerand obsesses about Kentucky basketball from afar. Ben has been writing about music for more than two decades, sometimes for websites you’ve heard of but more often for alt-weekly papers in cities across the country. Follow him on Twitter at
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