mewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright
 

New goodness from the Mewithouts, filled to the brim with religious undertones but I like the group so much I can ignore them.

Just downloaded it. Haven't listened yet, but I'll post my thoughts in the morning or once I've had a chance probably, since it is 2am.

Anyone else appreciate earlier works of these gentlemen?

I keep getting told by a guy at work to listen to them, so I should really check them out.

Yeah but don't start with this CD. I dunno. Huge directional change on this album. Much more acoustic/folk-centric. It's a little Neutral Milk Hotel-ish in places. It's not a bad thing, it's just not what I've come to expect. But it's a pretty drastic departure.

Again, it's not bad, but I guess it's a little how I felt about Cursive's last album: sure, it was released under the Cursive moniker, but it felt like a Good Life CD - same thing here. It's by "mewithoutYou" but it really feels more like "mewithoutYou's acousticky, folk-style sing-a-long".

Observe the difference:

"January 1979", Catch For Us the Foxes (2001)
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"Every Thought A Thought of You", It's All Crazy!... (2009)
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Yeah.