PAT: Is this one of those songs that you can't dance to but has beats that make you think you can? I dig it, but he's singing me to sleep on the top half while seriously playing with my junk at the bottom. I would have dubbed thee 6.5ish if there were saxophones on the outro, but as it stands, it's a (4).
ANDY: Long after the death of chillwave, Washed Out finally gets around to releasing an LP? Too little, too late, Ernest. He hemmed and hawed about performing live, and took his sweet time to release this one, almost two years after his genre existed, while his contemporaries are releasing superior sophomore efforts. This track is fine, but for the most part, I liked it better when it was sung by a vocalist confident enough to leave his bedroom. I think that vocalist was Bono, and the track was called "Beautiful Day". (5)
RAJ: The opening keyboard stabs kinda remind me of "Born Slippy", so point for that! But this is awfully bland beyond that - the vocal line is a retread of "Feel It All Around" with a castrated melody, those arpeggio bloops at the end rip off Cut Copy without also ripping off Cut Copy's sense of fun, and all of those synths "soar" in a particularly Moby kind of way. It all just strikes me as insincere, not unlike that stupid perfume-ad album cover. (4)
JESSE: Repetitive songs are good if they can hold your attention. The elements of this song are just too on the fence to be considered legitimately interesting. It never breaks into something more than what could be nice background music for a Nintendo game. (3)
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