I’m a huge fan of their music, huge! My kids are as well. Not one song I don’t like of theirs from The Lumineers, Cleopatra, C-Sides, every single, soundtrack song, holiday, and cover, so I was stoked!
This album definitely is different and I really like a few of them but this isn’t the same band we all know and love. The story, I get isn’t upbeat and feel good but without the music videos to fill the imagination, the lyrics are repetitive and seem incomplete. The beginning of Democracy, I was going crazy - something different and theatrical but then it stopped and continued the same chords and riffs.
I’m not going to say I’m disappointed because these people are very talented but maybe this was just hyped up and anticipated a little more than it was worth.