The opening guitar’s jaunty dissonance gets me thinking I’ve heard this before, but the mid-song scattered howls in “A New Parade” reassure me that I’m mistaken… for now. “Loosen Up” stacks some lazy blues licks and an ethereal, slightly off pitch slow strum atop galloping percussion, all which leads dead into Delff’s shredded scream as the song’s finale (who needs a cadence?). “Air Better Come” is loaded with head bobbing beats, albeit head bobbing beats that Radiohead patented years ago (if you’re gonna copy someone though, Phil Selway isn’t too bad a choice). As the album progresses, I wonder if The Shaky Hands toured with Wolf Parade during the Apologies… era. Musically, the first half of Lunglight wants you to believe something, almost baiting you to connect with an ornately prescribed sound, but the album begins evolving and by the end your upside down and starting it all over to figure out why.
