something else i did yesterday as i was walking was that i spent some time with a new record by an old favourite.

after such a long wait, i was a little worried that i was going to get something geared more towards the broken social scene crowd. those fears are unrealized; this is a do make record, through and through.

none of their records really sound the same, and this carries it on. what i might suggest jumps out is a new set of influences. there are nods to acts like 65daysofstatic, yann tiersen and perhaps tim hecker buried into the mix. this a useful facelift, but....

what i'm left to wonder is what might have been had they been releasing all of these years.

this is not as strong as their 2009 disc, which i expected even at the time it was released to be their last and which i've interpreted as a fitting farewell for all of these years, but it's certainly stronger than their 2007 disc. it doesn't sound like an appendage, though. it sounds like a start of something new.

let's hope they keep releasing.