An ambitious album that careens from track to track, There Are Rules is at times overwhelming. But in a relatively weak year (2011), it is the finest album and a reminder that sometimes a band must take chances with its sound to find something brilliant. The track "Regent's Court" propels the listener into the album and provides something of a mission statement, or at least an advisory, with Matt Pryor pleading "have to up the medicine."
An ambitious album that careens from track to track, There Are Rules is at times overwhelming. But in a relatively weak year (2011), it is the finest album and a reminder that sometimes a band must take chances with its sound to find something brilliant. The track "Regent's Court" propels the listener into the album and provides something of a mission statement, or at least an advisory, with Matt Pryor pleading "have to up the medicine."