As I kept passing on this disc I wasn't interested to listen to another hipster band. I then was in HMV and saw it sitting on the counter and I asked what is the Divine Fits like and is it good. The two kids working in the store gushed about it and how great the merging of Spoon and Wolf Parade's Boeckner and Daniel was and how they put the perfect amount of each band's sound into this music.Well now I had to get around to listening to the album and I have done so three times now. I was impressed after the first listen enough to take in the car to listen to it again and it passed the car test so I gave it a third reading and now I have to admit those Hipster type cool kids at HMV were right. The album is very good, Spoon is present in the sound on the lyrical content and the alt. rock structure but the Wolf Parade's electronic sounds are sprinkled all over the music which does make for a nice mixture of both bands.
I found that this album was better than the last Spoon album and brought to mind the writings of Kraftwerk, Nick Cave, Split Enz, Flock Of Seagulls and Human League. This album is very strong and if you are in for something a little smarter than the average bear I highly recommend this album.
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