Yeasayer "Fragrant World"

First Impressions of the record are that this stinks, or at least smells, because it is a Fragrant World after all. It reminds me of my first impressions of Sauerkraut.
I hated the smell of it whenever my mom made it, refusing to try it for the first few times, but after trying it I liked it. The best line of the opener is “expertise on air guitar” so his “Fingers Never Bleed.” A song of neglected ambitions and theft that sounds like it came with a Timbobeat. So even if this is their last record,  just “Live in the moment/Never count on longevity, please.”                                                                     Life is much simpler with less, and the protag decides to move in with Mother Earth because she cannot stand to see the depressing gray slats of man-made street, nor “Blue Paper” because it’s just not normal. “Henrietta” sounds as if she is a cancer patient; while it may weaken the body, it strengthens the spirit. Lively instrumentation for the first two minutes which then become a step towards passing away, but after a minute you start to hear unintelligible lyrics; half-asleep and lack of focus. I was thinking the “Devil and the Deed” used a tool in a different universe. “Suppose it's the right time,” but the right time for what?                  The next song is one that could be said to have a collective soul. While there were “No Bones” in the previous, there were a heckuvalot more to bring “Reagan’s Skeleton” to life. An interesting concept, and with lines like “Blood trickled down, economically” it makes you wonder if political commentary was implied; even with just the title, or is it just a rambling as useless as this fluff you're currently reading; probably not. I don't know whose "Folk Hero Schtick" they are getting sick of, but I favor the end over the beginning.; the emperor must have secretly put the clothes back on (sneaky sovereign). Are we all doomed, or is someone spending too much time looking through the "Glass of the Microscope"?  Favorites: Longevity, Henrietta, Devil and the Deed, No Bones, Folk Hero Schtick, and Glass of the Microscope.