![]() But I’d be lying if I said the one-two punch of “True Blue” and “Lord Knows Best” weren’t the most important tracks here for situating the album in relation to its soul. Because digging right in feels like embarking on a comprehensive task: “Horses” has something you might call a noise-solo, if only because of where it appears structurally and the way the album tucks all of its sounds into some sort of a vanishing point, that consists of layered reverberating clicks, and that’s its noise solo the huge/distant pile of coalescing synths in the middle of “Sweet 17” could be the utmost in tomfoolery if they didn’t make the song by being absolutely out of place, giving its sparse rockabilly rumble an absolute nemesis to cut back through. Whether or not it’s an EP is moot and anachronistic, but I like it the way I would like an extraordinarily good EP, my heart pumped full of hope for broader horizons (indiscernible, perhaps, in the blurry pan-out of the final two tracks). 09.04.11 I’m pretty annoyed with ordinal reviews, or track-by-track enumerations that yield scores of 95.147 for OK Computer, but I find myself slipping into that when I basically like everything about an album-and especially, as in the case of Badlands, when it feels like there’s so little to even mention.
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