I didn’t say any of that was bad. I just said sometimes, for me, I have to put that aside and take an album as it is. I even said in the previous post I understand and don’t think it’s a bad thing.
Despite some similar vocal melodies and riffs I find this to be very different from Glow On. Just listened to both back to back.
Also yeah when the brass came in on Dreaming I just smiled involuntarily, wasn't expecting that or anything else that song does. Great flow with so many transitions and I am a sucker for that shit, hangs together so well as an album. Might have to scoop this on wax.
I listened and watched the Fallon performance so much that I'm used to "I Care" going into "Dull" that it was weird not hearing that on the record. Anybody else? lol
This will sound blasphemous, but an edit without some of the interludes/trail offs of the whole record could absolutely put most of this in the public sphere. The Killers did this for pressure machine, and as much as I like the storytelling at the beginning of many of those songs, I come back to the “song only” version way more.