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Title: What exactly happened here?
Review: Every other release from Sunny Day Real Estate is pure genius. This, however, seems completely unfocused and corny. Jeremy's voice, which was fine on How It Feels... has gone up one octave and is very obnoxious. Also, the brilliant lyrics of the other albums, especially Diary and Lp2 have turned into some cheesy, blatently preachy Christian gobledegook. Not only has Jeremy declined, but the prog rock of How It Feels... deteriorated into U2 power chord territory most likely due to the lack of a bass player.Jeremy, William, and Nate(!) have formed a new band. I believe this band will be able to create great albums like the original Sunny Day Real Estate did. If you are new to Sunny Day Real Estate, I would get the albums is chronological order, with Diary being your first album. If you get this one first, you will judge them by their worst effort, and miss out on some great music.
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