Everyday Life [2xLP]

Description

On the 52-minute vision quest that is their new double LP, the worlds most earnest arena band sound looser than they have in years.

Despite its sprawling architecture, the album is one of the bands most consistent, unified works. The music is filled with other voices: Nigerian vocalist Tiwa Savage, the late qawwali singer Amjad Sabri, Alice Coltrane, Frightened Rabbits Scott Hutchison, and three generations of Kutis (Fela, Femi, and Made) are credited in the liner notes.

While it can feel cluttered at times, overflowing with annotations and footnotes, it rarely feels heavy; the sequencing seems to inhale and exhale with each song, its attempts at arena peaks (Church, Orphans) followed by moments of mournful ambience. The dynamics help create a sense of space thats been missing from nearly everything this band has recorded over the past 10 years.

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