Dan Deacon’s follow-up to his 2006 breakthrough Spiderman of the Rings seems to operate within the same range of building, pulsing, bizarre beats, twinkly, toy-like sounds and manipulated vocals and samples , but utilizes them in a way that’s altogether more mature and sincere about what it’s doing – the tracks are deceptively complex and brilliant in the way they continually build, from the strangely contemplative, eight minute “Snookered” to the entrancingly epic finale “Get Older”.

8.7 / 10

Carpark
March 24, 2009