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Slowly though, as you make your way through the album, and become accustomed to their start-stop-shout-speak approach, the bigger picture comes into view. While it becomes easier to decipher the story and feelings the twosome are trying to convey, the sparseness of it all seems to stall occasionally between art punk and performance piece. Fortunately, songs like ‘Don’t Talk To Strangers’, ‘Eat, Sleep’, and ‘Crackerjack Docker’ manage a slightly (very slightly) more conventional structure that moves things along. In fact, ‘Crackerjack Docker’ makes itself at home in that part of your brain that causes you to hum it for days after, whether you like it or not (perhaps explaining why it was chosen as the lead off single). Without these though, I’m not sure who’d have the patience to sit though the whole album. Coming from the legendary DFA Records, its likely many would expect something more obvious; perhaps a White Stripes meets The Rapture, or something along the lines of Crystal Castles. There is however, a sense that Murphy and Goldsworthy wanted to showcase something different, and unexpected. This band (and album) definitely does this in spades.