Album Description
A-side “The Wanderer” is a masterpiece of vox reverb, distorted guitars, and drum machine clap tracks. It’s the group’s standout “hit,” and one listen will tell you why. It’s relatively easy to determine what makes a song catchy–a choice vocal melody or a memorable chord progression–but it’s harder to pin down what makes a song truly infectious.
B-side “The MO” luxuriates over 5 minutes as it collects musical shrapnel scattered about the song–a drum fill here, a guitar lick there–and adds them to its slow sonic expansion. The tune continues to accumulate new elements until 4:25 when it sheds its skin and simply resets. It’s a cathartic moment, and well worth the wait.
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