It starts strangely, just a guy talking about aliens and reptiles, a bit like the beginning of I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, but a lot weirder.
Then it develops into the first proper song, which develops slowly, but has a hypnotic hook that just draws you in, slowly, a little bit at a time. According to a Rolling Stone interview his guiding philosophy for this album was 'less is more,' and on the first track it really shows.
As I'm listening to this as a whole on NPR music, I don't really know when tracks begin and end, but what seems like the second track has Conor's trademark. The album settles down into some more electronically influenced tracks.
Approximated Sunlight, the fourth track on the album is a stripped down affair, just Conor's voice, some drums and sparse instrumentation, that builds up through the track. Haile Selassie is another track that you just think is made for multiple listens, a hook that jumps out at you, but the idea of more underneath.
I kinda lost focus after that, but it all continued to sound good, and it could well be the career defining work it's been made out to be.
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