For tomorrow I promise the first real album leak review (Man Man's Rabbit Habits) (I guess I am making a habit -- figure of speech, not a pun -- of announcing the coming attractions), but I really have to just get this one out of the way. Really quickly then.Walk It Off has a handful of cool songs, and by a handful of cool songs I mean that it sounds like they wrote two or three songs and recorded them over and over again to make the new album. This thing where the keys are driving the songs in sort of a middle ground with guitar flourishes is a pretty great idea, but I still have to deal with they guy's voice in the foreground, which is occasionally used to good effect but really just is grating and a not-so-good effect (it's probably the two or three songs thing). Man, the keys~ the fuzz~ the drive~ I feel it! -- catchy, almost interesting songs without detracting from the ever-important essence of music-to-listen (v. music-to-interpret) -- but they go and they go and then they're segueing into the next song, negating the music-to-listen aspect, C'MON GUYS YOU HAD SOMETHING GOING THERE, and as such, offering no closure, no resolution for their songs (this is not a theme in my writing, I swear). But hey, props to the cover art.
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