Odd Blood sounds like it crawled up from some leftover 1980s' concoction of big hair, synthesizers, and drum machines. That may sound horrid (if you find 80s music horrid, anyway), but it's important to actually make it through the first four songs, because they are quite good. Especially "Madder Red"--there's a certain epic ebb and flow to that one that makes it repeatedly listenable while driving or while running the final mile of a marathon. I'm not convinced that the final six tracks are really worth listening to, because they seem to adopt the framework of what the first four tracks set up, but then simply fail to deliver.(Side note: Album art is an integral part of the music experience for me, and I've always enjoyed paying attention to the "little things" a casing or liner can do to enhance attention or interest. In the case of Odd Blood, it was the liner notes; they were the glossiest, most colorfully mesmerizing I have ever seen, and the smell of them reminded me of some brand-new childhood toy.)
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