Blog: Aural States

After listening to Raditude , I am convinced Rivers Cuomo is the cop (the FBI agent, the NSA spy, etc.) so deep undercover he can no longer tell the difference between the person he is and the person he is pretending to be. The line between perception and reality is distorted, and the point at which it was crossed is a distant memory. Even though Make Believe was an exercise in banality and The Red Album was a weird-for-the-sake-of-being-we ird album with horrible results, we still got occasional lyrical assurances [...]