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very easy to listen to, nice playful synth and strong hooks/melodies. Glad to see the band have seemingly capitalized on being thrown into the spotlight by releasing a good album.

But if the rest is as good as Seasons then I will love it.

My friend described his voice as like her cat coughing up a furball at 4am.

Also the start of Seasons sounds like Born Slippy so it's all downhill from there when it comes to comparisons. Underworld >>>> Future Islands.

this isn't a best of? why the fuck is it called "singles" then.

but I think 80's synth fatigue is setting in. Fine Old Cannibals ?
I reckon this band will have slipped back into semi obscurity within a few months.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4445793#r8017366

I love their last 3 albums more or less at the same level but for very different reasons.

bought it yesterday off 7digital. Think it might be my favourite thing to come out this year after Wild Beasts/Beck.

I've not stopped humming and singing Seasons in a very flamboyant manner round the house since first hearing it on Letterman. Fall from Grace is another beast of a song too, my God this band have come along at a perfect time. Love over the top emotional nonsense you can sing along to.

Some of it's good. Some of it's a bit arse. Much like their other albums. Glad it's out there.

music sounds like the magic numbers reinvented themselves by buying a keyboard

apart from Royter-Hatfood

Love how they troll so many people simply by existing.

Don't think it'll be an Album of the Year contender or owt, but one of my favourites so far. I appareciate he has a weird vocal style on some tracks, and it's properly derivitive 80s stuff, but it's fun, so why get your knickers in a twist?

Probably one of the worst things I've heard in years. Don't understand any of the 'hype' or why people are so excited by it. I mean, I love Sea & Cake and all sorts of similarish things. They just make me crave another Mercury Rev album and wish Arcade Fire never happened.

Unexpected.

not sold on the rest of the album yet though. This thread is amusing though, reminds me of the reactions to going through the comments on YouTube to the Letterman performance. "Who is this man and why is he doing things slightly different to what I'm used to, not happy with this uniqueness at all!"

is how i would describe this album, which is a real shame as i loved On the Water. 2 or 3 really good songs, the rest just ok. Doesn't hang together as an album for me.