Title: Huge disappointment after Vertigo, Eloquence Lost
Product review: Usually when a band changes its name it is a meaningless act of marketing. Sadly, that is not true here. The reference to greater art gone, leaving only the mindless verb: Jump, serves as the perfect metaphore for a truly talented and literate band gone trite. To now write such bland, conventional songs and arrange them in such a candy assed way, resorting to lightly swirling electric guitars and breathy vocals articulating vacuous lyrics is for the members to completely fail to understand their great debt to introspection, intellectual reverence, and a classically fueled quirkiness. Not one song on this cd has any spiritual or intellectual rigor or genuine vigor. These lyrics say nothing in a common and trite way. The arrangements are unimaginative although performed flawlessly. The fault is not in their inability to fret notes, but rather, to fret notes uniquely. They have lost their voice.
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