A Constant Visual Feast

“Circumstances are as dire as they’ve ever been and they grow worse every day. As you dance in your living room to Better Dreaming, you may end up missing the message. If there is a single critique to make of Tune-Yards’ efforts here, it’s that the production backgrounds the songs’ meanings; this is what we in the reviewing game call “nitpicking,” or perhaps “grasping at straws.” Art in any medium can fly over an audience member’s head if they aren’t paying attention. It’s incumbent on them to think about what they’re watching, reading, or hearing, and, indeed, if you hear Garbus’ words in tandem with the deceptively funky genre blend she and Brenner present on Better Dreaming, you will no doubt hear that, as much delight as the music expresses, she is very, very pissed off.”

Full review at Paste Magazine.