
Much of my review of the frustratingly middling Intimacy was based around the observation that the band had a precocious desire to expand their sound that wasn't matched by their ability, that they were an underachiever's Radiohead grasping for a Kid A, but coming up Kid B (fnar fnar -that was an awful pun). Anyway, in their apparent desire to follow in the footsteps of Radiohead sonically, they've also been following their business models. First, we had the surprise download only release; now we have the very 'Web 2.02 idea of releasing 'stems' [...]