you know, i really liked this record, and it really hit me by surprise that i did. i'm not generally a spencer krug fan; the songwriting tends to overpower the musicianship, leaving these sonically limp narratives. it's music for english majors, basically. and who wants to hang out with english majors? fucking hippies, the lot of them...

by swinging a little more prog, it's like the opposites cancelled. he got some nice energy in crashing positive and negative.

and it might end up being his best record, if not his most popular or his most influential.