Fruit Bats - Gold Past Life

For some reason this album was a little challenging to write about, not for any technical reasons, but more for emotional ones. It was perhaps a little too close to home to listen over and over again to a bunch of songs about looking back on your earlier life from the perspective of a hard-won middle age and trying to do so with any degree of equanimity and without regret or sentimentality. And the songs are super catchy, which is a strange but also strangely appropriate setting for memories that may have become sweeter over time than the experiences themselves were at the time. It was kind of confusing to find myself actually thrown into a mini-depression by this experience, but that's what seems to have happened. I guess I'll try to shake that off with a run, and a reset, and start to think about the next album I have to review, which is an entirely more recondite affair.

Fruit Bats - Gold Past Life