The XX - XX

Okay so I wasn't even going to listen to this album until someone told me to. "It is awesome and you will love it, Cameron" this person said. This person might have been smoking crack. I am not sure. But I do know that person is a fucking asshole for recommending this bullshit to me.

First off: Chick vocals. They always suck and are always boring and generic (unless we're talking, like, Carole King).

Second: Bored male and female vocals. Fuck this. If I wanted to watch Juno and listen to a Moldy Sonic Peachy Youth record I would listen to that.

Third: Shitty band names. It took me like an hour to find the fucking album cover for this. I mostly got porn. I bet when they were naming the band and album they thought "golly gee, naming us after porn will be so clever and funny" but jokes on you, assholes, I like porn.

Those things aside, this record is kind of nice in a "will make hipster bitches wet" sort of way. I can't see many dudes listening to this album (and enjoying it).

As you listen to this album, you will probably notice "doesn't this sound like that awful Peter Paul and Bjork band with that stupid whistle song people were shitting themselves over a couple years ago?" Well know that you are not alone. I would accuse of this band being that band, but unlike with those other guys, I have actually made it halfway through one of their albums before feeling an intense desire to turn it off punch the first person I saw in the face. So basically this band is better. Not by much though.

I mean, yeah, I get it, drum machines and acoustic instruments, whispery dreamy vocals, reverb up the ass, etc., etc. It would be cool to focus entirely on the sound and not the songwriting if you were actually doing something new, but these dudes aren't. They are just being boring. That's alright I guess, if you're into boring, which apparently a lot of people are.

Final Score:
3.14/10