Menomena: Mines | CD review

(City Slang)"I get so caught up in my ways/ Sometimes I overlook the simple plains," runs the opening line of the Portland, Oregon art-rockers' fourth album, an obliquely fitting sentiment for a trio whose busy experimentalism previously came at the expense of decent songs. Not so here, however: guitars, percussion, brass, keyboards and vocal harmonies remain intricately meshed, but now they're aligned to straight-arrowed, slow-release melodies, standouts "Tithe" and "Dirty Cartoons" evoking Arc...

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