One of the better analytical reviews I've read, even if he seems to just add-up a bunch of nitpicks to yield a score that's less than the sum of its parts. I think it's also the first review to mention the imbalance of the album, which I sorta agree with, that the livelier songs are all at the end. If they had just stuck "Kick Drum Heart" or "Slight Figure of Speech" toward the beginning, it would've made that "quotidian sheen" less so and made the succession of slow songs more enjoyable. I hate it when albums put their absolutely best songs at the beginning (MGMT's "Oracular Spectacular") and the rest of the album never reaches those heights. This album is kinda the opposite.