While heartbreak propels much of this record, it would be reductive to call it a breakup album. Wollowitz and bandmate Al Nardo subject the universal experience of lost love to a kind of psychedelic processing.
Feats of Engineering is styled similarly, plucking the poppiest of melodies as freely as it changes time signatures. Think Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen with its honey-sweet hooks and shifting song structures.
Notes, too, of Animal Collective's cascading synthesizers and energetic vocal cacophony. They have the shameless ambition of an arena band with the musical chops of prog-rock veterans, underscored with a healthy flair for the theatrical.
Small moments kaleidoscope over each other, like Saturdays brightened by breakfast with Tony Danza, or chance encounters on the subway fringed with classical myth.
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