Re: Beach Fossils, Somersault,
Hearing the singles for the album beforehand, I’d been worried that the new LP would be too different from the style they’d had on previous albums, a style that I like.
This record is not a gradual sort-of ‘let’s try something a little different.’ This is more like ‘let’s mostly be a band of different type.’
The new record has some good songs on it. Some of those songs are in their old style and some are in their new style. However, a few of their songs in the new style did not work for me at all; it felt like they’d lost their edge and had become a soft rock pop band.
I went through the same thing, but to a lesser extent, with Wild Nothing, Life of Pause. Yet, whereas I consider Life of Pause still listenable, there are some songs on Somersault that I don’t think I can choke down.
