Postcards From A Young Man Thread

[cameron33]

Its not war - 6.5
Postcards - 10
Skon – 8.5
Descent – 8
Hazleton Avenue – 8.5
Auto intoxication – 8
Golden platitudes – 6.5
Think I’ve found it - 8
Billion balconies – 9
All we make is – 8
The future has been – 9
Don’t be evil – 8

Give it an 8.5 overall.

Their best album since EMG. Probably their 3rd best overall, slightly better than JFPL and TIMY (although the albums are so different that comparisons are quite meaningless in a sense) and comfortably better than SATTs.
First listen I found 'Future' pretty bad but second time i actually quite liked nicky's singing - the laid-back verses are fantastic in particular.

I think I've found it has got a great, great hook/riff. The other songs all have fantastic choruses. Just the INWJEL and Golden Platitudes not quite up to scratch (I think the former could have been half a minute shorter and perhaps laid off the choir a bit at the end). But they might grow on me too.
In short, loads of great songs and more invention than usual too.