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This time around, it just took a few years longer than expected to get there.
Upon its initial release, the album began circulating on online forums.
Listeners on r/indieheads and /mu/ notoriously volatile music threads on reddit and 4chan, respectively took to the record.
In both its 2011 and 2018 incarnations, it feels like Toledos most holistically formed body of work.
It makes sense that he wanted to revisit it.
Now, surrounded by a full band, it feels hopeful.
The record still plays out like it was written in the throes of tumultuous love.
Its far too messy not to have been.
You dont make a 13-minute behemoth like Beach Life-in-Death when youre looking back at a long-buried relationship.
That track sounds pretty close to the original version.
I dont want to have schizophrenia!
Then he abandons posturing entirely, I am terrified your body could fall apart at any second.
But the new versions high-fidelity recording elevates it.
Bodys swells into something overblown and outsized and deliriously euphoric.
Its enough to make a seven-year-old record feel brand new.
