The Devil, You + Me

How best to describe disappointment? And how best to justify it? Now that beloved German laptop-indie act the Notwist has finally released a follow-up to 2002's sublime Neon Golden, what to do with all this wasted anticipation? Those of us who regard that warmly inviting record as one of the decade's best must now sadly reckon with such questions. It's not that The Devil, You + Me is particularly bad; it merely and consistently recalls the band's more emotionally satisfying earlier work, while rarely equaling or surpassing it. We waited six years for this?

Find the stunning answer to my rhetorical question on a Slant.

[Re: photo - for some reason it seems that all the mediocre records have the best covers this year].