Why So Serious? Nine First-Listen Thoughts on ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead's Forthcoming Album

In his review of ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead's latest, the vinyl-only EP, Festival Thyme, Paste writer David Marek lamented that the band has "been running headlong in the wrong direction for the past five years." With few exceptions, I'm inclined to agree with him. What was once a thoroughly pulverizing rock juggernaut has, for whatever reason, gone ponderously soft and uninteresting on us.

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