is still an improbable album. the band never sounds like they’re trying very hard and yet every song breaks some convention or another. despite its showbiz arrangements, the music is tenuous and weird (a contrast that the band toyed with again on 2012's mr. m ), and wagner’...
ends the record with a plea for love—“if i gave you a hundred dollars to record just three words, i could make the perfect song,” he sings—he’s made a disarming case for understanding that it’s hard to imagine him pulling off in a setting less masterfully intimate. wagner’s ...
We all had no idea what was going on, every song we’d be like ‘What is this record?’ Because every song sounded different. In a way this record was working with everybody that I’ve worked with for years, and it wasn’t like a Fleetwood Mac thing where everybody fell in love ...