Sic Alps - A Long Way Around To A Shortcut and U.S. EZ

Damn I needed something organic like this. Feels pre-organized rock unit Royal Truxy, with a real songwriter panache to it.


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Pitchfork chunk: Without a doubt, U.S. EZ is a far more structured and melodic record, though its few more experimental tracks-- "Put the Puss to Bed" or the unexpected pummel and howl of "N##JJ"-- pale in comparison to the ones that made A Long Way Around to a Shortcut so wonderfully unpredictable. Granted, that was a singles collection, so of course it's more diverse. But here, amidst the nods to a noisier past and the occasional dip into intoxicated broken blues ("Clubbing for $$", "CO/CA"), U.S. EZ breaks through with tracks like "Everywhere, There", which takes woozy primitive pop and transforms it into something simultaneously fragile and coarse and then, suddenly, sublime.

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