AJ's voice sounds so much better on this than Golden Record - I didn't hate it on that album but it was...rough
This is gonna take a few listens for things to separate and songs to reveal themselves to me, which has always been the case for me with this band, but I like it.
My view is that the first four and the last three are really, really great. I'm less wild about the middle three, but the only one I dislike is "Valium." "Wild Again" feels like it has a lot of potential but never quite finds the melody.
On first listen, the musicianship on this is very top notch. Production really makes them shine here. "Do you remember you me, like i remember you?" on This is Life hit me hard.