Pool party

"It's beautifully recorded, sounding like it was tracked in the angels' own heavenly pool room, and the vocals soar and echo in space like the angels singing, but somehow it lacks clarity, drifting along in its own sonic zone without bothering to ground itself to mere earth very often. Call it southern gothic dream pop, if you will, but this is a band that knew how to rock, and there's not much of that in evidence on Pool Party".

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"Pool Party feels like an album trying to succeed. That's always a recipe for failure, so it's some small irony that the album's high point ('Navajo') is the band trying its hardest. Maybe it's the haphazardness of some of the writing on the rest of the record ("We almost wrote the whole thing in the studio," Nash has boasted in interviews), or maybe it's just that the talented young band is toying with so many influences that none end up feeling totally on point, but Pool Party feels just a little late to its own dreamy soiree".

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