And it is fun at times-certainly more so than the monotonously somber twinkly emo created by the likes of American Football and Empire! Empire! “Kettlers of Satan” bubbles along with a danceable energy, the distorted guitars kick in halfway through “I Can’t Sleep” in an incredibly satisfying way, and the dismissal of the hateful in “The Hand Strikes and Gives a Flower” is infused with a fantastic dry wit: “They said, ‘You’re queer,’ and I said, ‘You finally got something right.’” I made other surface-level observations during that first listen, about the strength of the songwriting, the tight musicianship, the balance of variation and cohesion in the collection of songs. My first time listening through The Thrill of Living, I began to think of it as “fun”.
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