I probably shouldn’t even post this since everyone will hate me, but:
It’s not much more than a musically innocuous and lyrically embarrassing pop record. AF flirt with Funeral-era greatness in the title track (the only song on the album I can say at all approaches being “great” or even…
Interesting. Obviously I really enjoyed The Suburbs, but I’m not gonna hate on this at all. In fact I agree with your opinion on a lot of points. Month of May is pretty bad and the overuse of ‘suburb’ in the lyrics got to me. I totally enjoyed your play by play on FB. When you said Sprawl II reminded you of Surrender I could hear it. But to me it reminds me of Heart of Glass even more.
Also I’d love to see you create something inspired by Kasparov vs Deep Blue. Just sayin’.