SORRY, MUSIC PEOPLE

I'm just going to say it: I don't like Bitte Orca. To my ears, it's the spiritual successor to Blueberry Boat, and we all know how I felt about that album. I don't know how ironic you'll find this sentence, but I react very poorly to anything that smacks of pretentiousness to me, and this didn't smack of it so much as shriek aloud with the voices of a thousand maimed robots.

Was I listening to the same album everybody else is? This thing is a fucking mess. Every track sounds to me like a junk catalog of suddenly-abandoned ideas for songs that were partially executed and thrown together after the fact in an utterly arbitrary, haphazard fashion. I'm all for a song that progresses through movements, but these tracks have no cohesion or logic to them that I can detect. It literally sounds like The Dirty Projectors had an idea for song A, then abandoned it utterly for a wholly different song B, then threw that shit out the window and started song C, all in the same five-minute track. Then they do it again. And again. It's horrible. Why do that! The Fiery Furnaces already went there! There's no need to follow them into that blasted, desolate land.

There's like one track on this album that I enjoy. Someone let me know if that's because I'm somehow crazy, or because this thing really just isn't that good.