2 keepers
keeper avg .154
Following the layers of experimentation of their previous album "Aufheben" (2012), BJM seems to have reined it in a bit on its follow-up. Stereolab is a significant touchstone on several tracks, including the speedy opener "Vad Hände Med Dem?", the dance-y, atmospheric instrumental jam "Duck and Cover", "Memorymix," and the "Sympathy For The Devil"-influenced closing track "Goodbye (Butterfly)." But most of the album is a return to familiar ground, the jangly psychedelic homage of BJM in the 90's, the best of these being the resolute, stomp-beat "What You Isn't"**** and the trippy "Memory Camp"****. Only a small handful of tracks fall outside either of these buckets, including the anxious early 80's post-punk of "Food For Clouds" and the somber eastern European folk instrumental "Second Sighting." I wouldn't call any track on the album an outright dud, but there aren't that many highlights or surprises either.
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