Hear ye! Hear ye!

So I'm in Stinkweeds recently ordering a copy of Little Dragon's Machine Dreams. While politely scrawling my info on their clipboard of faceless douche bags who can't just fucking purchase one of the trillion albums they already have in supply and want to order something that probably isn't worth their time, my ears were treated to the alluring beats of Phantogram's Running From the Cops. Not thinking much about it and not wanted to spend any money since I couldn't buy what I had originally come in for, I whipped out my phone and Shazam'd the song before heading out.

Fast forward a week or so when Machine Dreams came in, and I get a call from the fine folks at Stinkweeds. I roll down to the shop during the daylight hour I am released from my servitude and pick up the ordered CD. While checking out I asked about Phantogram. I was told that their CD is worth a listen, that there is a single copy still in stock and even more that the album is half the price of the one I ordered. I bought it. Good thing too, because I was a dragon disappointed by the little CD I paid twice as much for.

This album offers up 11 tracks most of which are pretty relaxing and even a few you could dance to. The general message is Dreaming Love Yearning Regret Remorse Accusatory Hope. Lyrically the tracks in which Sarah Barthel leads the vocals tend to have more depth while the Josh Carter tracks seems to have better beats. The album speaks to me and makes me feel a sense of Deja Vu, but not in a "I heard dis shitt befo" way.

I give this album 8,700 out of 10,000 CLAPS.