Decided to remind myself why I dislike Reflektor. First two songs are ok, but far longer than the ideas within the songs warrant. Flashbulb Eyes, is fine. Here comes the night is again far too long and uninteresting. Normal Person sounds like massively dated indie rock from way earlier than when it was released. You Already know is a shit cover version of a Great Escape era Blur B-side, that has a bog standard AF style outro.
If Joan of Arc were the longest song on the album it wouldn’t drag so much, but as it is, at 5 and a half minutes, the 5th shortest, I’m already fatigued from the repeated lacklustre of the the first half of the album in general. Here Comes The Night Time ii is pleasant enough, although I’d already just spent six and a half minutes of my life listening to this song just now.
Awful Sound is ok, although it goes a bit November Rain at 2 minutes and I’m pretty sure by the end they forgot they weren’t playing that instead. I like It’s Never Over, It’s a bit like a slowed down version of Raquel by Neon Neon, but it does at least do some different things, I like the vocal Regine and Win’s vocal play. Porno starts off too much like of a remix of the previous track, as it’s got near identical chords. It never really goes anywhere but is fine, I guess.
After almost a hour, Afterlife is the first song that’s anywhere near like the quality of anything they’d done before this album. Sounds like they actually wrote this song. Supersymmetry feels like they had to make the album longer so as to be able to call it a double album. The synths are ok, but I’m not really sure why as one song, it’s almost as long as Tony Molina’s debut album.
