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wrote the blueprint for
's hard-rocking
, and
essentially follows the pattern, for both better and worse. A lighter affair than
,
is actually a stranger album than its predecessor, buoyed by bizarre
-
flourishes from pianist
and a handful of winding, vaguely experimental songs.
abandons his futuristic obsessions to concentrate on the detached cool of New York and London hipsters, as on the compressed rockers
and
follows the hard stuff with the jazzy, dissonant sprawls of
all of which manage to be both campy and avant-garde simultaneously, while the sweepingly cinematic
is a soaring fusion of sci-fi
and melodramatic teenage
. He lets his paranoia slip through in the clenched rhythms of
as well as on his oddly clueless cover of
For all the pleasures on
, there's no distinctive sound or theme to make the album cohesive; it's
riding the wake of
, which means there's a wealth of classic material here, but not enough focus to make the album itself a classic. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine