By Bill Murphy | Thu, 21 Jul 2011
REMEMBER THE House episode when the good doctor takes an LSD-enhanced shower to
the spaced-out strains of “Get Miles” by Gomez? This album, resplendent in its summery
indie-pop sheen, isn’t anything like the band’s 1998 debut, but there’s a lot going on in the
background to appeal to the acid dreamer in all of us. From the scratchy programmed
percussion of “Just As Lost As You” to the bouncing synth stabs of “The Place and
the People” and the sweeping Mellotron-like textures of “That Wolf” and “X-Rays,”
atmosphere here is king.