Ironically, some of my favs from the album were the tunes in which the band doesn’t strictly about love as it takes on more of a supporting role as thoughts about reconciling oneself with both a grown-up and modern world come into the first-person. Songs like “I Want the World to Stop” and “I’m Not Living in the Real World” pack in some of the more substantial ideas from the album while be dressed in some of the record’s most flamboyant aesthetics. Specifically, the examination of what it truly and actually means, looks, and feels like for the winsome, precocious types that populate Belle and Sebastian’s songs to find their niches as adults in the digital age where their child-like perspectives might not make as much sense or be as cute as it used to be. I agree with you Morrissey comparison and I think it’s interesting to see B&S explore the ways in which that kind of persona come into contact and interact with our contemporary culture.

Overall a solid album that doesn’t disappoint if failing to thrill and accomplish something significant with every track.