Your Heart Breaks - Love is a Long Dark Road (Love is All You Need)

In consideration of posterity, this review is first because Tapes 'n Tapes (second) is not a band of very much posture, esp in light of the fact that I was partially motivated to start a blog to complain to the anonymous aether about Walk It Off. Now I can start talking.

That Love Is A Long Dark Road (Love Is All You Need) (mouthful) falls short of 30 minutes is slightly worrisome -- ten songs yes, pop songs yes, YHB is making very good arguments for why-the-album-is-so-
short-while-still-qualifying-as-an-album (mouthful), but everything here sounds, sadly very sadly, unfinished. There's a lot of space in the songs, but I don't know what that means. From the few seconds of silence preceding the opening track, to the (mostly) spacey sound, to the drifting-off-into-space (less of a mouthful) endings and more space in between songs, I don't know what it means. It's not quite half an hour and there's a lot of space and this album doesn't sound completed. I like the songs on it ("Torrey Pines", "The Duffren Hotel"), but if I listen to it through once, I get detached; if I listen to it through and through on repeat, I get bored. This worries me.