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So here it is,
, the inevitable reunion album, delivered eight years after
's last album, six years after
indulged his
worship via
, five years after
and
whiled away their time with
, and two years after the trio re-formed for a tour, igniting the long fuse that led to this sixth
album. Produced by the three
themselves,
certainly is a different beast than any of the cheerfully snotty early
albums, as the band picks up the gloomy thread left hanging on its eponymous 2003 album, the one that was connected ever so slightly to "Stay Together for the Kids," the hit from 2001's
that signaled some deeper emotions behind the goofy facade. Very little of that slapstick is retained on
; it's been replaced by atmospheric echoes stripped from
, a pretension from
that's given form and a pulse by
. Although there's considerably more momentum -- and hooks! -- on
than either
album, this still gets plenty ponderous, taking so many scenic detours that the three-minute songs often seem twice as long.
are hardly the first band to equate maturity with prog rock, going so far to cop a good chunk of their themes and artistic aesthetic for
from
's "Subdivisions," yet it's far better to hear
grapple with adolescent angst via the perspective of middle age than vainly attempting to re-create their youth. Perhaps
could stand to sharpen their words but it's better that they concentrated on their music, creating a fairly ridiculous yet mildly compelling prog-punk spin on the suburbs here. Guess the hiatus did them some good. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine