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It's a good pop album. Within a certain context, it, and they, is/are quite innovative. A guitar band making a consistently good album? That's quite innovative. For anyone with a cursory awareness of... well, just about the entire history of rock/ 'other' music, it's not terribly innovative.
But promotional rhetoric is a different language to the one most people speak.
I saw an advert for Damien Rice's new album the other day. They said, "the most influential musician of his generation". Bullshit, obviously, but within the promo-speak lexicon that's a fair assessment.
Genuinely innovative albums though? I can think of a few, but they are incredibly few and far between. In the last ten years I would say the only genuinely innovative music I've heard has been from Taku Sugimoto, and I can't stand that.
For my money, the likes of Haino/ NNCK/ Otomo Yoshihide/ Philip Jeck aren't necessarily innovative, but they are incredibly good.
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