I was a little unimpressed with "The Milk of Human Kindness", especially after the psychedelic bliss of "Up In Flames". But Dan Snaith seems to have come back around to this fabulous combination of good songwriting AND ear-tickling sampling. "Andorra" sounds like a late-1960s rock album, though if you listen close enough you can still tell that it's made by machines.

The songs on this album are nostalgic and intimate. "She's The One" has to be my favorite, as it always comes off sounding like a Fountains of Wayne song to me (I think there's a similar melody in there). The orchestration, though synthesized, sampled & looped, is always right on. The flutes that keep showing up, the persistent organs, those marching band drums in "Sandy", and of course the guitar--all of the instruments just sound excellent. And Snaith's voice sounds better on this album than it ever has.

Electronic music never sounded so good. It never sounded so much like psychedelic rock! I can't help but love it.